| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 64654 |
| QUOTATION: | One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. (repr. 1895). The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Fortnightly Review (London, February 1891). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Wilde Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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