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Topic·Punishment✕clear

Psychological literature

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

1987

★ 1.7

Scripture · Religious literature

A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

God

Genesis 4:12 · 1405 BC

★ 1.9

Essay · Political literature

All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.

Jeremy Bentham

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation · 1789

★ 2.0

Political literature

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

John Milton

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 2.1

Poem · Narrative poem

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero

On the Laws · 43 BC

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

The broad effects which can obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but dos not make him "better."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals · 1887

★ 4.6

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