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> [Our justice system is a punitive one that's there to sort of deal with what happens after someone's already offended.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-quinn/our-justice-system-is-a-punitive-one-that-s-there-to-sort-of-deal/)

[Zoe Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-quinn/)

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> [I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/romano-prodi/i-don-t-want-to-pass-a-punitive-law-or-use-politics-as-a-vendetta/)

[Romano Prodi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/romano-prodi/)

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> [“Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning - that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/nothing-is-more-punitive-than-to-give-a-disease-a-meaning-that/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/the-web-is-democratising-and-also-the-voice-of-people-who-don-t-think/)

[Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/)

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> [I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-saban/i-ve-had-a-lot-more-success-helping-guys-then-just-being-punitive/)

[Nick Saban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-saban/)

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> [The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-b-rosenberg/the-punitive-use-of-force-tends-to-generate-hostility-and-to/)

[Marshall B. Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-b-rosenberg/)

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> [Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-hayes/americans-like-to-humiliate-wrongdoers-we-like-in-short-to-punish-it/)

[Chris Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-hayes/)

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> [It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-troward/it-is-an-enduring-truth-which-can-never-be-altered-that-every/)

[Thomas Troward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-troward/)

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> [It's not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It's the way we respond to crime and how we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-alexander/it-s-not-crime-that-makes-us-more-punitive-in-the-united-states-it-s/)

[Michelle Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-alexander/)

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> [Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-f-skinner/punitive-measures-whether-administered-by-police-teachers-spouses-or/)

[B. F. Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-f-skinner/)

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> [You look forward. You don't go punitive. It's very small-minded to do that. There's campaign rhetoric, and then there's stuff that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/you-look-forward-you-don-t-go-punitive-it-s-very-small-minded-to-do/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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