Quotes About Punishment

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.

madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.

This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of punishment, supervision, and constraint.

Le supplice ne rétablissait pas la justice, il réactivait le pouvoir.

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

The great hospitals, houses of confinement, establishments of religion and public order, of assistance and punishment, of governmental charity and welfare measures, are a phenomenon of the classical period:

It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion, or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality, it is produced permanently around, on, within the body by a functioning of a power that is exercised on those punished - and in a more general way, on those one supervises, trains and corrects, over madmen, children at home and at school, the colonized, over those who are stuck at a machine and supervised for the rest of their lives.

The punishment must proceed from the crime; the law must appear to be a necessity of things, and power must act while concealing itself beneath the gentle force of nature.

Utopía del pudor judicial: quitar la existencia evitando sentir el daño, privar de todos los derechos sin hacer sufrir, imponer penas liberadas de dolor.

Le droit de punir a été déplacé de la vengeance du souverain à la défense de la société.

Es preciso que la justicia criminal, en lugar de vengarse, castigue al fin. Esta necesidad de un castigo sin suplicio se formula en primer lugar como un grito del corazón o de la naturaleza indignada: en el peor de los asesinos, hay una cosa al menos que debe respetarse cuando se castiga: su "humanidad".

The criticism that was often levelled at the penitentiary system in the early nineteenth century (imprisonment is not a sufficient punishment: prisoners are less hungry, less cold, less deprived in general than many poor people or even workers) suggests a postulate that was never explicitly denied: it is just that a condemned man should suffer physically more than other men. It is difficult to dissociate punishment from additional physical pain. What would a non-corporal punishment be?

the pillory was abolished in France in 1789 and in England in 1837.

We must show that punitive measures are not simply 'negative' mechanisms that make it possible to repress, to prevent, to exclude, to eliminate; but that they are linked to a whole series of positive and useful effects which it is their task to support.

And the sentence that condemns or acquits is not simply a judgement of guilt, a legal decision that lays down punishment; it bears within it an assessment of normality and a technical prescription for a possible normalization. Today the judge- magistrate or juror certainly does more than 'judge'.

The guillotine takes life almost without touching the body, just as prison deprives of liberty or a fine reduces wealth.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

We are told, "You're a good boy," or "You're a good girl," when we do what Mom and Dad want us to do. When we don't, we are "a bad girl" or "a bad boy." When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward.

The Judge decrees, and the Victim suffers the guilt and punishment. But who says there is justice in this dream? True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

Por miedo a ser castigados o por miedo a no recibir una recompensa empezamos a tratar de complacer a otras personas. Intentamos ser buenos porque la gente mala no recibe recompensas y se la castiga.

The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. If justice exists, then that was enough; we don't need to do it again. But every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again, and again, and again.

Ahora nos domesticamos a nosotros mismos según el sistema de creencias que nos transmitieron y utilizando el mismo sistema de castigo y recompensa.

The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. If justice exists, then that was enough; we don't need to do it again. But every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again, and again, and again.