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| Den som inte bestraffar ondskan, befaller att den sker. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt | Anne O'Hare McCormick |
| 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 (1849-1926) |
| Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. | Orrin Hatch |
| I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws | Jerry Falwell (1933-) |
| One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Let the punishment fit the crime | Proverb |
| Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. | Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) |
| Laws undertake to punish only overt acts | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Fear follows crime, and is its punishment | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| 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 S. Szasz (1920-) |
| Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt | Anne O'Hare McCormick |
| Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons | Richard Wright (1908-1960) |
| Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. | Orrin Hatch |
| I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws | Jerry Falwell (1933-) |
| Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Punishment is lame, but it comes | George Herbert (1593-1633) |