When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. – Italian Proverb
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. – African Proverb
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. – Woody Allen
Prisons dont rehabilitate, they dont punish, they dont protect, so what the hell do they do? – Jerry Brown
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. – John Bunyan
Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. – Miguel de Cervantes
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. – Michel Foucault
Well, theres no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. – Lady Gregory
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. – Edward F. Halifax
One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another. – Hitopadesa
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. – Horace
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Levi-Strauss
No one provokes me with impunity. – Mary Queen Of Scots
