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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

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And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Woody Allen

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5

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Seneca the Younger

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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

John Bunyan

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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

Anthony Trollope

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9

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Gore Vidal

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12

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

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13

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

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14

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Pierre Corneille

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15

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Cicero

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

Victor Hugo

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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

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18

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

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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 brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Oscar Wilde

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One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

William Blake

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Augustine of Hippo

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Horace

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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Seneca the Younger

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28

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Aristotle

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29

The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.

Voltaire

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30

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Seneca the Younger

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32

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

Henry Fielding

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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

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Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Simone Weil

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

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

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 brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.