Cutting Quote by Rand Paul

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad for the…

— Rand Paul

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are…

— Rand Paul

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

— Joao Lourenco

Although I consider myself pretty liberal, I'm not against punishment. There's nothing wrong with punishing someone who has done something wrong. Or with public…

— Peter Moskos

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

— Tacitus

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

— Ernest Van den Haag

There are people who are at fault for one or another problem. These people are very avaricious and self-serving. They're not doing it just…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to…

— St. Jerome

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

— Cesare Beccaria

but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison…

— Terry Pratchett

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

— Susan Rosenberg