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Punishment Quotes
Lines on rules, consequences, and disgrace.
This set looks at punishment as the natural companion to rules: once rules exist, breaking them invites consequences. One quote draws a sharper distinction, arguing that shame comes from the wrongdoing itself rather than from what follows it. See related themes in our Crime quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
- Message
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- Nov 07, 2020
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
- Draconian
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- Nov 07, 2020
More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.
- Capital Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.
- Cruel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.
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- Nov 07, 2020