Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Love cannot be turned on as a reward. It cannot be turned off as a punishment. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some… — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen… — Darren Wershler-Henry Copy Share Image
I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“had to tell them what happened. How it happened. How many times it happened. I am so very sorry Gaze. And now… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
Being a Secret Service agent, I have an obligation not to disclose personal conversations and security details. But that doesn't prevent me… — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even… — Archie Manning Copy Share Image
As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
