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Quotes about punishment
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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
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. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Punishment is justice for the unjust. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Then spare the rod and spoil the child. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
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. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
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. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
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. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
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. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
No one provokes me with impunity. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. (Tucker Benjamin Ricketson)
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