Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Hosea Ballou

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Hosea Ballou

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

Hosea Ballou

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Hosea Ballou

Hatred is self-punishment.

Horace

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Horace

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Hannah Arendt

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

George Bernard Shaw

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

I'm not going to punish him for being hurt.

Samuel Butler

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

It is unfair to us and now we are one of the smallest teams in double-A. Other schools have been recruiting and we see it as a punishment because of other schools.

George Herbert

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.

Jayne Mansfield

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Joseph Joubert

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Murray Rothbard

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

H. L. Mencken

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

H. L. Mencken

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

H. L. Mencken

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

George Herbert

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

George Herbert

Service without reward is punishment.

George Herbert

Though punishment be slow, still it comes.

Georg Brandes

Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

Jerry Brown

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Giacomo Casanova

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

Honore de Balzac

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Francis Quarles

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Horace

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Horace Mann

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.