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Quotes About Punishment

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
~ Adam Smith
in a caring relationship there was no room for punishment.
~ Adele Faber
Punishment is a very ineffective method of discipline . . . for punishment, strangely enough, often has the effect of teaching the child to behave in exactly the opposite way from the way we want him to behave! Many parents use punishment simply because no one has ever taught them better ways of disciplining their children.
~ Adele Faber
Gemsons, Cobsons, Dathrohanists or otherwise - it matters not. The sentence for treason against the collective will of the state is numbered in thremblo years.
~ Adolf Hitler
Crime does pay, it pays well. But what they don't tell you is you have to pay it all back with interest.
~ Montel Vontavious Porter
I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.
~ Loretta Lynch
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
~ Angela Davis
I believe in the death penalty.
~ James Dobson
No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.
~ Federica Mogherini
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
~ Clint Smith
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
~ Ovid
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
~ Brigitte Bardot
The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.
~ Ralph Northam
We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.
~ Cori Bush
I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.
~ Steve Largent
I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
~ Bill Paxton
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
~ Gary Bauer
I am against the death penalty.
~ Andrew Cuomo
My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
~ Kate Brown
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
~ Reid Hoffman
Michael Cohen is a criminal, and he deserves the max penalty.
~ Michael Avenatti
Nothing good happens without a penalty.
~ Ann McKee
I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.
~ Amarinder Singh
There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.
~ Cori Bush