Crime Quote by Marquis de Sade

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

— Saint Augustine

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

— Saint Augustine

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

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

— Terry Goodkind

The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we have to…

— Chris Hayes

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

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is…

— Michel Foucault

When you know what you have done wrong, punishment is not so painful because it feels deserved and serves to improve you. More often,…

— Anonymous

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

— Gregory David Roberts

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

— Anonymous

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt…

— Thomas Szasz

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

— Werner Herzog