#punishment

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#acting #also #apparently #argue #behalf

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

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

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

— Ben Jonson

#fury #itself #like #mind #punishment

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#apple #been #consequences #disagrees #eve

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#gift #many #punishment #some

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. ↗

— Paul Simon

#capital punishment #death #guarantee #innocent #innocent people

Let's not talk punishment. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#talk

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (it occurs in a passage of perfectly demented detail about the exact rules governing mutual ox-goring; you should look it up in its context (Exodus 21). The second is from the Gospels and says that only those without sin should cast the first stone. The first is a moral basis for capital punishment and other barbarities; the second is so relativistic and "nonjudgmental" that it would not allow the prosecution of Charles Manson. Our few notions of justice have had to evolve despite these absurd codes of ultra vindictiveness and ultracompassion. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #compassion #guilt #immorality #justice

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#liar #lie #punishment #lie