Punishment - The justice that the guilty
deal out to those that are caught.
?Elbert Green Hubbard
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
?St. Augustine
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
?Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially
different from that of curing or educating.
?Michel Foucault
When the gods wish to punish us
they answer our prayers.
?Oscar Wilde
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
?Romanian Proverb
Punishment is the last and the least
effective instrument in the hands of the
legislator for the prevention of crime.
?John Ruskin
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments
our town deals out to those who fall from favor are
the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
?Hedda Hopper
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to
double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
?Harriet Beecher Stowe
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
?Saint Augustine
