Punishment Quotes

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

~ Henry Miller

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

~ Voltaire

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

~ Jeremy Bentham

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

He only may chastise who loves.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

~ Oscar Wilde

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

~ Jerry Brown

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

~ Henry Ford

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

~ Bertrand Russell

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.

~ Damon Runyon

Crime like virtue has its degrees.

~ Racine

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

~ Ric Flair

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

~ Floyd Mayweather

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

~ Lyman Trumbull

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

~ B. F. Skinner

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

~ Robert Mugabe

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

~ Hannah Arendt

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

~ Aristotle

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

~ Lope De Vega

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

~ George Orwell

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

~ Anatole Broyard

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

~ Benjamin Tucker

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

~ Saint Augustine