The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. – Ovid
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute. – Samuel Johnson
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. – Jeremy Bentham
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. – Saint Augustine
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. – Cicero
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life. – Orrin Hatch
Punishment is God’s. He alone is the infallible Judge. – Mahatma Gandhi
An unjust punishment is never forgotten. – Penelope Fitzgerald
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless. – Voltaire
What punishments of God are not gifts?. – J. R. R. Tolkien
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor. – Albert Camus
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. – Marilyn vos Savant
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul. – Simone Weil
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. – Elizabeth Fry
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. – Jerzy Kosinski
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism. – Catherine the Great
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. – Woody Allen
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth. – Alfie Kohn
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. – George Bernard Shaw
Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure. – Chris Borland
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one’s self. – Pasquier Quesnel
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt. – William Ellery Channing
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. – Plato
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. – Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Punishment is justice for the unjust. – Saint Augustine of Hippo
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion. – Horace
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion. – George Washington
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible. – Jean Piaget
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. – Thomas Szasz
To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it. – Seneca
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. – John Ruskin
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
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. – Joseph Joubert
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. – Joseph de Maistre
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. – Bruno Bettelheim
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective. – Moshe Dayan
Punishment – The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. – Elbert Hubbard
Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity. – Joseph H. Hertz
Punishment is lame, but it comes. – George Herbert
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. – Barbara Deming
