Achieve Quote by Anonymous

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

— William Gilmore Simms

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie…

— Leo Tolstoy

“...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.”

— Auberon Waugh

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

— Thomas Fuller

“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it should operate.…

— Jeremy Bentham

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which…

— Marquis de Sade

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

— Karl Kraus

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime,…

— Anonymous

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

— Cesare Beccaria

By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted…

— John Paul Stevens

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

— Ovid