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There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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Sin contains its own judgement and punishment.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

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