Quotes with punish

  • I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
  • A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ovid A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Benjamin Franklin God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lord George Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Cass Sunstein If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Billy Graham If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Frederick the Great If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Michel Foucault In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Jerry Brown Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
    Jerry Brown
    American politician (1938 - )
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  • Napoleon The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Albert Einstein To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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