#punishment

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#nature #neither #nor #punishments #rewards

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ↗

— George Zebrowski

#morals #punishment #family

Punishment is justice for the unjust. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#punishment #unjust

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#itself #mischief #punishment

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#cards #immediately #out #politics #power

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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