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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
— Maimonides
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
— Clarence Darrow
If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe
fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.
— Max Lucado
The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing
that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
— Seneca The Younger
Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess. Or because I'm the cat curiosity is scheduled to kill in approximately six hours.
— Lindsey Ouimet
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.
— Kristina Adams
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
— Sean Kennedy
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
— William J. Clinton
He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.
— Ravindra Shukla
O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.
— George Carlin
I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.
— Seanan McGuire
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
— Andre Gide
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
— Jacqueline Carey
Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before.
— Susanna Kearsley
Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.
— Richard G. Scott
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
— Hannah Arendt
The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.
— Parker J. Palmer
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
— Michel De Montaigne
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
— Thomas Aquinas
We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss.
— Anne Fortier
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
— Richard Paul Evans
It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.
— Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl Of Swinton
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
— Horace Mann
He gets hard seeing his marks on me. I get wet knowing this. I don't try to analyze it. It's just us.
— Willow Madison
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
— Lillian Hellman
There's always enough retribution to be dealt.
— Amber Silvia
The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
— Ernest Holmes
Writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics.
— Edward Frenkel
When I look in the mirror... I know that I belong to him...that I will never be the same again. I've let him punish me...
— Willow Madison
To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.
— Frederic Manning
There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.
— Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
— Mary Doria Russell
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.
— Sallie Tisdale
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There
— George Lakoff
It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
— Samuel Johnson
War ... is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
— Thomas Jefferson
I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
— Stanley Kubrick
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
— Mother Teresa
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
— Laird Barron
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
— Ernest Van Den Haag
Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
— Robert Kennedy
Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.
— Danny Silk
Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
I knew how to prepare for punishment. And I knew how to glue back my shattered pieces afterward. That was it. I didn't know how to endure anyone else.
— Pepper Winters
We make needless ado about capital punishment,
taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau
taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau
Judgement is not punishment, judgment is verdict. Judgement always gives an opportunity for life to change.
— Tahira Amir Khan
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
— Paul Simon
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
— Claudius Claudianus
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
— Benigno Aquino III
I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.
— Philip Yancey
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
— Cesare Beccaria
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
— Billy Strayhorn
Kiddo, I'd let you brand me with a hot iron if you wanted to."
"Still a sucker for punishment?"
He grinned. "Something like that. — Karina Halle
"Still a sucker for punishment?"
He grinned. "Something like that. — Karina Halle
We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.
— Albert Camus
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.
— Anjem Choudary
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
— Khaled Hosseini
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
— George Washington
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
— Werner Herzog