Crime Quote by Ovid

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

— Ovid

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“Suffering to the criminal can never be justified by the notion of vindictive punishment. If education combined with kindness is equally effective, it is…

— Bertrand Russell

“The misfortune we sometimes view as punishment is really just the natural result of our poor judgment; but it is easier for us to…

— Debbie Gilliland

“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

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

“No form of punishment will be inflicted,”

— Suzanne Collins

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil

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 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

“The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that…

— Charles Dickens