PUNISHMENT

Related Subjects: Capital Punishment, Crime, Exile, Guilt, Hanging, Hell, Judgment Day, Justice, Law, Prison, Rebuke, Retribution

1. The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than by reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings, than because of its own foulness.—ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics
   

2. He that spareth his rod hateth his son.—Bible, Proverbs 13:24
   

3. The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury, than he who receives it.—CATO THE CENSOR
   

4. The object of punishment is the protection of society and the reformation of the offender.—GALSWORTHY
   

5. If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.—HAMMURABI, The Code of Hammurabi King of Babylon
   

6. The whole of this procedure [solitary confinement] is cruel and barbarous, unworthy of a humane or civilized nation. To my knowledge, it drives many men mad, and even when it does not induce lunacy, mentally affects a large proportion of those subjected to it.—H. B. MONTGOMERY
   

7. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.—NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
   

8. He that spares the bad injures the good.—Proverb
   

9. Spare the rod, and spoil the child.—Proverb
   

10. He that chastiseth one amendeth many.—Proverb
    

11. Like punishment and equal pain, both key and key-hole.—Proverb
    

12. It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the guilty.—Proverb
    

13. Criminals are punished that others may be amended.—Proverb
    

14. Things have come to a heluva pass
    When a man can't cudgel his own jack-ass.—HENRY WATTERSON