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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
-Italian Proverb
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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
-African Proverb
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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
-Woody Allen
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
-Aristotle
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
-William Blake
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
-Jerry Brown
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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
-John Bunyan
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Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
-Samuel Butler
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
-Albert Camus
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
-Pierre Corneille
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
-Marquis De Sade
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
-Diogenes
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
-Henry Fielding
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
-Michel Foucault
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
-Lady Gregory
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
-Edward F. Halifax
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One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.
-Hitopadesa
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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
-Horace
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.
-Victor Hugo
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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
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
-Andre Malraux
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No one provokes me with impunity.
-Mary Queen Of Scots
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Books about Punishment
