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Do not hurry over punishments and do not be pleased and do not be proud of your power to punish.

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Some have been beaten till they knowA shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.

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By punishing the criminal the moral man hopes to dissuade the evil imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.

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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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Hail, hieroglyphic State machine,And all thy insignificance disdain!

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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time —A source of innocent merriment.

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Something lingering with boiling oil in it…. something humorous but lingering—with either boiling oil or melted lead.

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The wolf must die in his own skin.

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It is a question of whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when he hits the chair he has bumped into.

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Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our elements.

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

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It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

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Whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.

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It is folly to punish your neighbour by fire when you live next door.

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Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,Smarting in ling'ring pickle.

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Vex not his ghost: Oh; let him pass! he hates him,Stretch him out longer.

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Some of us will smart for it.

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Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!

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A testy babe will scratch the nurse,And presently all humbled kiss the rod.

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Cruelties are practised in accordance with acts of senate and popular assembly, and the public is bidden to do that which is forbidden to the individual. Deeds that would be punished by loss of life when committed in secret, are praised by us because uniformed generals have carried them out.

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A person has done evil, so another person, or a group of people, in order to fight this evil, cannot think of anything better than to create another evil, which they call punishment.

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Everything about our present system of punishments and about all criminal law will be thought of by future generations in the same way that we think of cannibalism or human sacrifice to the pagan gods. “How did they not see the uselessness and cruelty of those things which they did?” our descendents will say about us.

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The strongest proof that in the name of “science” we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment.

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Punishment tames the man, but does not make him “better.”

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People produce example after example of the alleged relationship between cause and effect between guilt and punishment, confirm it as well founded and strengthen their faith … All, however, are at one in the wholly crude, unscientific character of their activity. … Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudosciences.

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Men of application and goodwill, assist in this one work: to take the concept of punishment which has overrun the whole world and root it out! There exists no more noxious weed!

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Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him?If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

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A community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than … by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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See they suffer death,Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.

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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

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I stew all night in my own grease.

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Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

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That is the bitterest of all, to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

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Send them into everlasting Coventry.

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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

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My punishment is greater than I can bear

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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

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For whoso spareth the spring [switch] spilleth his children.

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Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

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Ay—down to the dust with them, slaves as they are, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnant in chains.

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Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,But most chastises those whom most he likes.

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But if the first EveWho eating hath robb'd the whole tree.

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He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

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To kiss the rod.

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There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth GodThan from theyr children to spare the rod.

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Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.

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The woman, Spaniel, the walnut tree,The more you beat them the better they be.

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They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

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What heavy guilt upon him lies! And eagles eat the same.

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Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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Jupiter is late in looking into his note-book.

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I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

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Punishment is intended for example; but a person insane can have no design; and to punish him can be no example.

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It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

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Furiosus absentis loco est. Non multum distant a brutis qui ratione carent: A madman is like a man who is absent. Those who want reason are not far removed from brutes.

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Furiosus solo furore punitur: Let a madman be punished by his madness alone.

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Multiplicata trasgressione crescat poena inflictis: Let infliction of punishment increase with multiplied crime.

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In dispensing the criminal justice of the country, we have sometimes an arduous task to perform. It is not a pleasant thing, most certainly, to condemn any one of our fellow creatures to punishment; but those who are entrusted with the administration of the criminal justice of a country, must summon up their fortitude, and render justice to the public, as well as justice tempered with mercy to the individual.

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. . . —a Court where neither favour nor interest can protect you; but where punishment will be impartially inflicted, according to every man's demerit . . . examples become necessary, pro salute reipuhlicm. It is not in the power of this supreme Court of criminal jurisdiction, considering the venality of the times, to cleanse the Augean stable, and therefore our only consolation must be "est aliquod prodire tenus si non datur ultra."

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Pane potius molliendce quam exasperandee sunt: Punishments should rather be softened than aggravated.

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Melior est justitia vere prteveniens, quam severe puniens: Justice truly preventing is better than severely punishing.

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Praestat cautela quam medela: Caution is better than cure.

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Prevention is better than cure.

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I shall temper so justice with mercy.

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Mercy seasons justice.

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No legal punishment is inflicted for revenge; all are for correction of the individual delinquent or others. All are pro salute animarum.

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A power to imprison does not give a power to fine. I cannot accede to the proposition that in England in penal jurisdiction the admitted power to award a particular punishment involves the power of awarding every lesser punishment.

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We cannot explore any mode of sentencing a man to imprisonment, who is imprisoned already, but by tacking one imprisonment to the other.

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Violent courses are like to hot waters that may do good in an extremity, but the use of them doth spoil the stomach, and it will require them stronger and stronger, and by little and little they will lessen their own operation.

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