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The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...

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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the de...

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Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life ...

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Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of the...

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She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good G...

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A curse burns bright on crime.

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that ...

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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason ...

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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The grea...

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And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...

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Anne RiceBeauty's Punishment

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actual...

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain f...

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They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...

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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how...

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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best...

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Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given wa...

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The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but i...

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Love was always and only about good feeling. In early adolescence when we were whipped and told that...

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I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to kno...

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The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so ...

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Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

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Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

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...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

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Charles DarwinThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi...

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You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There ar...

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but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for de...

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Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...

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Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if...

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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the conscio...

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One is punished most for one’s virtues.

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of ...

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today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would ma...

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our...

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It work...

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyon...

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punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...

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The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no suc...

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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people sho...

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Guy de MaupassantCollected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...

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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...

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And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man ...

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Henry MillerTropic of Capricorn

The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolera...

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In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was no...

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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...

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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

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John Stuart MillAn examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being ...

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You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him f...

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They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with deat...

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Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said....

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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who...

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It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and th...

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There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...

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Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

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What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would y...

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The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century,...

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The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not...

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Michel FoucaultDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a ba...

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Norman MailerOn God: An Uncommon Conversation

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shac...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle