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Adam Smith1 quote
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. — Adam Smith · 1759Bruno Bettelheim1 quote
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 · 1987Cicero1 quote
Let the punishment match the offense. — Cicero · 43 BCFriedrich Nietzsche1 quote
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 · 1887God1 quote
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. — God · 1405 BCJeremy Bentham1 quote
All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham · 1789John Milton1 quote
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 · 1644Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798