Bears Quote by Ovid

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

— Ovid

“The Master said, Guide the people by law, aline them by punishment; they may shun crime, but they will want shame. Guide them by…

— Confucius

“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

“Such people are their own punishment.”

— Charles Palliser

“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

Let the punishment fit the crime.

— Anonymous

“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of…

— Jane Austen

“There are but a few that look on themselves as concerned at all, just like a company of simple sheep in a fat pasture.…

— John Fox

“How can people be punished when they are innocent?”

— Paul Scott

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth…

— Plato

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

— Saint Augustine