Quotes
Quotes about Men
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. [Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest.]
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
