| Author |
Quotes |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. |
| Plato | It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine. |
| Romanian Proverb | Every sin brings its punishment with it. |
| Saint Augustine | Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. |
| St Augustine | Punishment is justice for the unjust. |
| Wentworth Dillon | 'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. |
| William S Gilbert | My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime. |
| William S Gilbert | Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Let the punishment be equal with the offence. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt, and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. |
| George Herbert | The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Punishment follows close on crime. |
| Joseph Addison | See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. |
| Oscar Wilde | When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Send them into everlasting Coventry. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. |
| Samuel Butler | Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow, Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. |
| Unattributed Author | To kiss the rod. |
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