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Punishment follows close on crime. -- Horace
Punishment is justice for the unjust. -- Saint Augustine
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. -- Elbert Hubbard
Punishment is lame, but it comes. -- George Herbert
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible. -- Jean Piaget
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion. -- Horace
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust. -- Saint Augustine
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. -- Barbara Deming
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul. -- Simone Weil
Punishment is the root of violence on our planet. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive. -- Jodi Picoult
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. -- Orrin Hatch
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. -- Elizabeth Fry
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. -- Jules Renard
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. -- Bill Bennett
She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts. -- Rick Riordan
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. -- Jayne Mansfield
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. -- Clarence Darrow
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. -- Charles Mackay
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. -- Suetonius
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. -- Marshall Rose
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. -- John Ruskin
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. -- Robert Kennedy
Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment. -- Chanakya
My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that. -- Janet Fitch
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone. -- Zig Ziglar
He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause. -- Terry Pratchett
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. -- Oscar Wilde
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. -- Arthur Smith
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to. -- Henry Wotton
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. -- Bill Maher
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. -- Henry Ford
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. -- Plato
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. -- B. F. Skinner
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. -- Margaret Mead
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. -- Oscar Wilde
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. -- Ellen Key
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted. -- Marquis de Sade
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order. -- Thomas Szasz
I do not believe having a baby is punishment. -- Allen West
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. -- Jeremy Bentham
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. -- George Sand
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. -- Benjamin Tucker
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. -- Matthew Henry
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. -- Werner Herzog
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. -- B. F. Skinner
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. -- Ida B. Wells
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. -- Robert Mugabe
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' -- Jeff Lindsay
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. -- Lou Holtz
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. -- Clint Eastwood
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. -- Alphonsus Liguori
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. -- Ramakrishna
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. -- Althea Gibson
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. -- Ida B. Wells
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. -- Teju Cole
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. -- Max Weber
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. -- J. G. Ballard
Hatred is self-punishment. -- Hosea Ballou
Let's not talk punishment. -- George Steinbrenner
Vices are their own punishment -- Aesop
Service without reward is punishment. -- George Herbert
Virtue is its own punishment. -- Aneurin Bevan
Evil gains work their punishment. -- Sophocles
Wickedness is its own punishment. -- Francis Quarles
Every sin provokes its punishment. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Divine punishment are also mercies. -- C. S. Lewis
PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment. -- Ambrose Bierce
Hell is not punishment, it's training. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Many without punishment, none without sin. -- John Ray
An unjust punishment is never forgotten. -- Penelope Fitzgerald
A fate is not a punishment. -- Albert Camus
Let the punishment fit the crime. -- W.S. Gilbert
Let the punishment match the offense. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. -- Kate Mulgrew
Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment. -- Barack Obama
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. -- Pierre Corneille
I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment. -- Henry Lawson
That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit. -- Malachy McCourt
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem. -- Jeph Jacques
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment. -- George R. R. Martin
Sin contains its own judgement and punishment. -- Dalai Lama
Sin and the sinner both deserve punishment -- Kim Soo-hyun
I favor capital punishment. It saves lives. -- Nancy Reagan
Fear follows crime and is its punishment. -- Voltaire
A bad deed always brings a punishment. -- Johanna Spyri
Regret is a form of punishment itself. -- Nouman Ali Khan
Every sin brings its punishment with it. -- George Herbert
When hope is gone, time is punishment. -- Mitch Albom
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. -- William Cowper
Though punishment be slow, still it comes. -- George Herbert
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment. -- Regina Maria Roche
A cold heart is its own worst punishment. -- Frank McAdam
Children must be educated by love, not punishment. -- James Joyce
Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man. -- Khem Veasna
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. -- Ovid
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt. -- William Ellery Channing
It's amazing how much punishment we can take. -- Philip Roth
Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins. -- James Reston, Jr.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. -- Albert Camus
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. -- Ovid
No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions. -- Mitt Romney

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