Motivational Quotes

Punishment

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

- Diogenes of Sinope

Best Quotes about Punishment

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

Vidal, Gore

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

Blake, William

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

Voltaire

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

Hitopadesa

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Ray, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

Weil, Simone

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

Seneca

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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.

Key, Ellen

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

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

Camus, Albert

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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Malraux, Andre

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

Foucault, Michel

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Corneille, Pierre

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No one provokes me with impunity.

Mary Queen Of Scots

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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.

Trollope, Anthony

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Seneca

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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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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Allen, Woody

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

Brown, Jerry

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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Gregory, Lady

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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ruskin, John

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We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

Taylor, William Cooke

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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.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.

Proverb, South African

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Sade, Marquis De