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Punishment Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Let the punishment match the offense.
- But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
- Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
- Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others…
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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
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- Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
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- Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce
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