#punish

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ↗

— Thomas More

#manners #politics #punishment #scapegoats #thieves

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#different #educating #essentially #function #power

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ↗

— Elizabeth Fry

#criminal #lessen #punishment #reform #revenge

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#justice #law #love #punishment #surrender

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! ↗

— Gil Gerard

#daughter #guess #i #old #punishment

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#i #kind #life #live #long

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. ↗

— William Ernest Henley

#captain #charged #fate #gate #how

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ↗

— William Ernest Hocking

#feel #good #him #justice #man

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. ↗

— Richard Land

#believers #civil #evil #god #magistrate