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Punishment Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
- Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
- Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides,…
- The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning,…
- Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
- Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell
- All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham
- To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. — Jose Bergamin
- Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim
- Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce
- All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
- To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility… — Anatole Broyard