Quotes about Punishment

“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.”

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

“Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”

“He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.”

“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.”

“No one provokes me with impunity.”

“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”

“Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”

“Every guilty person is his own hangman.”

“Many without punishment, none without sin.”

“Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.”

“And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.”

“Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.”

“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”

“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”

“It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.”

“When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.”

“Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

“I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.”

“The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.”

“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”

“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”

“Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.”

“The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.”

“One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.”

“Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.”

“Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?”

“In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.”

“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”

“Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.”