Quotes About Punishment

The best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

He was opposed to capital punishment—"institutionalized sadism," he termed it—and in favor of prison reforms that would emphasize rehabilitation. His opinions were generally conservative, however, and he did not subscribe to the fashionable view of the sixties that criminals were victims of society.

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

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by a man shall his blood be shed.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

The way of transgressors is hard.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

The way of transgressors is hard.s

Many without punishment, none without sin.