#punish

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

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crime #humor #immigration #politics #punishment

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#shane-collins #punishment

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#punishment

I was shocked to read that Lord Ferrers, a Home Office minister, when booked for speeding and presented with a £40 fixed penalty with three penalty points, them wrote to the Suffolk police to thank them for catching him. There is a sickness in England. If his lordship appreciates punishment so much, it was unkind just to fine him. He should have been caned, with his trousers down, by the side of the road. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#home

It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable man, everyone, that is, whose ideas have a certain interconnection and whose feelings accord with those of other men, may be a witness. The true measure of his credibility is nothing other than his interest in telling or not telling the truth; for this reason it is frivolous to insist that women are too weak [to be good witnesses], childish to insist that civil death in a condemned man has the same effects as a real death, and meaningless to insist on the infamy of the infamous, when they have no interest in lying. ↗

— Cesare Beccaria

#crimes-and-punishments #justice #law #witnesses #death

I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#humor #leila #vlad-tepesh #forgiveness

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#especially #far #far less #less #makes

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

— Michel Foucault

#different #educating #essentially #function #power

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#justice #law #love #punishment #surrender