Punishment Quotes

“Punishment doesn't stop the misbehavior. It only makes the child more secretive.”

“I was exiled to Akatuy for participating in the assassination attempt against a Tsarist official in Kiev.”

“The intent of punishments is not to torment a sentient being, nor to undo a crime already committed.”

“I have to say I'm all for public flogging.”

“Of all the plagues which infest society, corporal punishment is the most extensive and injurious.”

“All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.”

“The severest punishment a man can receive is to be deprived of the power of doing good.”

“Just for that, the shorts will be worn.”

“I am in favor of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate.”

“Austin's going to the woodshed!”

“I had to go to prison to find out who I was.”

“Men and women are punished when their masters and mistresses are wrathful.”

“Le remords est la crainte d'une peine que l'on craint.”

“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”

“There is no more dreadful punishment than to be doomed to do something which is contrary to the whole bent of your nature.”

“They want to punish us for being a democracy.”

“The question is not whether the death penalty is a deterrent, but whether it is a just and proportionate punishment.”

“The criminal law is not a statement of how people ought to behave; it is a statement of what will happen to them if they do not behave.”

“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.”

“The stories of the punishments in Purgatory were dreadful, and often repeated.”