(644 quotes found)
“The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it”
Cato the Censor
“Clever tyrants are never punished.”
Voltaire
“What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor”
Henry Louis Mencken
“To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”
Anatole Broyard
“Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“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
“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.”
“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
George Sand
“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”
Clarence Darrow
