| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
| Bible | And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. |
| Bible | Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. |
| Bible | And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. |
| Bible | It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. |
| Bible | And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. |
| Bible | He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. |
| Claudian | He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. |
| Don Marquis | Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him. |
| Elbert Green Hubbard | Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. |
| Euripides | Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. |
| Euripides | Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. |
| Hedda Hopper | 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. |
| John Locke | If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. |
| John Ruskin | Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. |
| Juvenal | One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. |
| Karl Schonhausen Bismarck | Let them stew in their own grease Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck |
| Michel Foucault | In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. |
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