punishment quotes

• Christ believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. (Bertrand Russell) [punishment]
• Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. (Woody Allen) [capital/punishment/more/measure]
• 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. (Hannah Arendt) [punishment/power/punishment/crime]
• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. (Georges Bernanos) [punishment/knowledge/speak/faith]
• Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. (Marcus Cicero) [punishment]
• Just vengeance does not call for punishment. (Pierre Corneille) [punishment]
• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Dorothy Dix) [weakness/punishment/silence]
• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [crime/punishment/punishment/flower]
• Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller. (Benjamin Franklin) [punishment/people/king/luxury]
• Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. (Robert Herrick) [content/punishment]
• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. ( Horace) [punishment]
• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. (John Locke) [evil/punishment/mankind]
• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. (Henry Miller) [crime/knowledge/punishment]
• All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [punishment/people/more/feeling]
• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. ( Plato) [punishment/take/government/government]
• Many without punishment, none without sin. (John Ray) [punishment/sin]
• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. (John Ruskin) [punishment/crime]
• A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ( Seneca) [punishment]
• The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ( Seneca) [punishment/conscience/sin]
• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. (Oscar Wilde) [find/punishment/rest]
• One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. (Oscar Wilde) [more/employment/punishment/crime]
• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. ( Madonna) [religion/religion/punishment]
• I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. (Richard Attenborough) [capital/punishment/life]

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