"I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate."
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"With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite."
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"The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good."
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"...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite."
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"It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls."
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"I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately."
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"Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)"
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"If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations."
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"The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses."
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"The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did."
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"I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image."
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"I favor capital punishment. It saves lives."
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"My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers."
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"Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament."
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"But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief."
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"A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion."
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"It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience."
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"I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer."
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"Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government."
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"Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better."
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