Lord Byron Quotes, Revenge Quotes, Punishment Quotes

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

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It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

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Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of punishment to say they were wrong, but show them they are part of society and can change. Show them compassion.

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I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

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