Punishment Quotes ( 10 - 20 of 49 )
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something
humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted read more
Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something
humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.
Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own
wrong-doing.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own
wrong-doing.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked
man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its read more
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked
man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on
the bad.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
