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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ↗

— Gary Becker

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

— Elizabeth Fry

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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

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