Certain Quote by William Gilmore Simms

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

— Karl Kraus

Some things come with their own punishments.

— Arundhati Roy

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as…

— William Blackstone

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates…

— Anonymous

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

— Cesare Beccaria

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

— John Wooden

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

— Anonymous