Democratic Quotes


Punishment is justice for the unjust. Saint Augustine of Hippo Punishment 981
Every guilty person is his own hangman. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Punishment 595
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. John Ruskin Punishment 174
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? Diogenes Punishment 164
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. Friedrich Nietzsche Punishment 163
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. Ellen Key Punishment 106
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky Punishment 105
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. John Bunyan Punishment 104
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. Miguel de Cervantes Punishment 100
When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. Italian Proverbs Punishment 99
man holds the remedy in his own hands and lets everything go its own way simply through cowardice that is an axiom. Fyodor Dostoevsky Punishment 99
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless. Voltaire (Fran Punishment 87
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. Lord (George Gordon) Byron Punishment 85
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear. Jacqueline Carey Punishment 84
If life is a punishment one should wish for an end if life is a test one should wish it to be short. Bernardin de Saint Pierre Punishment 84
They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with builtin bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in wandering through its maze of shelves. Arundhati Roy Punishment 82
No one provokes me with impunity. Mary Queen Of Scots Punishment 80
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Punishment 76
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. Henry Fielding Punishment 75
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. Edward F. Halifax Punishment 75
One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another. Hitopadesa Punishment 69
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. African Proverbs Punishment 66
Oh Lestat you deserved everything thats ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. Anne Rice Punishment 65
Yeah reflections The same but different. Like twins like blood brothers And when you need something bad done like punishment or revenge youll just ask me and I will do it Sonya Hartnett Punishment 64
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. Michel Foucault Punishment 62
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Punishment 60
Then spare the rod and spoil the child. Samuel Butler Punishment 60
And where the offence is, let the great axe fall. William Shakespeare Punishment 58
Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation Did Jesus suffer in vain Frank Harris Punishment 57
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. Pierre Corneille Punishment 57
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. William Cooke Taylor Punishment 51
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. Claude LeviStrauss Punishment 50
Many without punishment, none without sin. John Ray Punishment 50
You must suffer me to go my own dark way. Robert Louis Stevenson Punishment 47
Every night death came slowly painfully and every morning Maddox awoke in bed knowing hed have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment. Gena Showalter Punishment 46
But secondly you say society must exact vengeance and society must punish. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. Victor Hugo Punishment 45
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face. Anthony Trollope Punishment 45
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. Theyre a kind of job insurance. Frank Herbert Punishment 44
Next to the prosperity of a good person, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal. Source Unknown Punishment 43
Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time. Richelle E. Goodrich Punishment 43
I think my reputation will look after itself Holmes said. If they hang me Watson I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. Anthony Horowitz Punishment 41
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. Andre Malraux Punishment 41
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Friedrich Nietzsche Punishment 40
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it. Anton Chekhov Punishment 40
Punishment creates crime. Silvia Hartmann Punishment 38
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart I am told this is due to fear. Fyodor Dostoevsky Punishment 38
The punishment for rape should be castration. Amit Abraham Punishment 38
It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment than to lie and face the consequences. Anthony Liccione Punishment 37
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. Horace Punishment 37
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older. J.M. Barrie Punishment 37

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