Courses Quote by Clarence Darrow

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

— Clarence Darrow

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

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

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

— Ayn Rand

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of…

— P.W. Thirion

Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To mete out punishment itself becomes a punishment for that person who gives it when the convict is someone close to him.

— Mak_786

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

— Ovid

“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

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel