Saint Augustine Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Justice Quotes

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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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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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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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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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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

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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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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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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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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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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

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

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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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