Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old punishment quotes, punishment sayings, and punishment proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.Elizabeth Fry
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.George Bernard Shaw
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.Plato
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.Saint Augustine
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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
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.Barbara Deming
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.Henry Ford
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.Joseph de Maistre
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.Jeremy Bentham
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There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.Jerzy Kosinski
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Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure.Chris Borland
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.Orrin Hatch
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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
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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.Cicero
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.Augustine of Hippo
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.Voltaire
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.Marquis De Sade
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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.Woody Allen
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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
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What punishments of God are not gifts?J. R. R. Tolkien
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An unjust punishment is never forgotten.Penelope Fitzgerald
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Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.Simone Weil
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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.Alfie Kohn
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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.William Ellery Channing
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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.Horace
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Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.Jean Piaget
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Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.Joseph H. Hertz
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.Mahatma Gandhi
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.Samuel Johnson