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• I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Justice, Advice

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• If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Suffering, Prison

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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• Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

  Voltaire

  Fear, Prison, Crime

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• All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Feelings, Resistance

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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• Punishment follows close on crime.

  Horace

  Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Carmina, IV. 5. 24, 1922.

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• Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Justice, Guilt, Caught

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Many without punishment, none without sin.

  John Ray

  Sin

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.15

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

  Michel Foucault

  Different, Function, Crime And Punishment

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.303, Vintage

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• No one provokes me with impunity.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Provoking, Impunity

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• Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Charity, Poverty

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• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, History

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Christian, War

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• Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

  Hedda Hopper

  Two, Telephones, Towns

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• Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

  Jules Renard

  Success, Congratulations, Failure

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.123, Tin House Books

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• Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Men, Suffering

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

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• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

  Marquis de Sade

  Eye, Humanity, Doe

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

  George Eliot

  Yoke

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3184, Delphi Classics

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Revenge, Ideas

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Ellen Key

  Pain, Giving, Shame

  Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

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• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  Orrin Hatch

  Death, Political, Politics

  "The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations". Book by David Milsted, 1999.

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• Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, May, Raskolnikov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Firsts, Sin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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