Quotes
Quotes about Punishment
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.
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
The pleasing punishment that women bear. -The Comedy of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1.
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto: Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
