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