Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Punishment Quotes

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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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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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

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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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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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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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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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