Punishment Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Juvenal

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea.

Bible

The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

Bible

The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Voltaire

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Otto von Bismarck

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Bible

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood by a man shall his blood be shed.

Bible

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Juvenal

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea.

Bible

The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

Bible

The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Voltaire

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Otto von Bismarck

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Bible

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood by a man shall his blood be shed.

Bible

And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook but he always looks.

Zenobius

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.

Anonymous prisoner

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

George Bernard Shaw

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)

Anonymous

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

Voltaire

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He only may chastise who loves.

Rabindranath Tagore

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Rémy de Gourmont

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Bertrand Russell

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.

Crime like virtue has its degrees.

Racine

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do I have reckless instincts? Everything is possible, everything, even the most sordid and undignified things.

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance

Friedrich Nietzsche

Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for its widespread use. We 'instinctively' attack anyone whose behavior displeases us - perhaps not in physical assault, but with criticism, disapproval, blame, or ridicule. Whether or not there is an inherited tendency to do this, the immediate effect of the practice is reinforcing enough to explain its currency. In the long run, however, punishment does not actually eliminate behavior from a repertoire, and its temporary achievement is obtained at tremendous cost in reducing the over-all efficiency and happiness of the group. (p. 190)

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the child's behavior is strong only because it has been reinforced by 'getting a rise out of' the parent, it will disappear when this consequence is no longer forthcoming. (p. 192)

I concentrate intently on counting: hearing my voice break as the torment and torture builds; fingering myself intensely at his instruction. As we get past ten I slip up; overwhelmed by the sensations wracking my body, I realise in horror that I don’t know which number is next.

Felicity Brandon

I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will be confused. One: "Si vis pacem, para bellum." Latin. Boot Camp Sergeant made us recite it like a prayer. "Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war." Two: Frank Castle is dead. He died with his family. Three: in certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment.

Jonathan Hensleigh

The threat of punishment at home or school only served as a challenge to figure out how to circumvent the consequences when I did what I wanted to do anyway. I didn't fear the punishment, I just saw it as an inconvenience to work around.

Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.

The punishment for rape should be castration.

Society's revenge matched its fright.

Barbara W. Tuchman

There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

Richard Wagamese

I no longer fear the pain...I fear no release from this torture...knowing that I've hurt him and he can't forgive me...that he won't be able to make me his good girl again.

Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind.

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

Judith Flanders

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A slow but steady transformation of deviance has taken place in American society. It has not been a change in behavior as such, but in how behavior is defined. Deviant behaviors that were once defined as immoral, sinful, or criminal have been given medical meanings. Some say that rehabilitation has replaced punishment, but in many cases medical treatments have become a new form of punishment and social control.

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?

Alexander McCall Smith

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

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