536 Quotes About Punishment

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

Next to the prosperity of a good person, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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.