Administration Quote by Chanakya

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes…

— Chanakya

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as…

— William Blackstone

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

— Anonymous

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to…

— Anonymous

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

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

— B. F. Skinner

“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails…

— Oscar Wilde

“There are three conceivable kinds of punishment—first, that of mere retribution, which I take to be entirely and only human—therefore, indeed, more properly inhuman,…

— George MacDonald