Air Quote by George Eliot

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

— Isaac Parker

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

— Marcus Aurelius

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that…

— Norm MacDonald

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when…

— George Bernard Shaw

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws…

— Thucydides

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

— Agatha Christie

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is…

— Anonymous

Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

— Plato

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt