More quotations tagged with “punishment”
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
—Bill Maher
What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself.
—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath
Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty.
—Michel Foucault
As one reads history… one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
—Oscar Wilde
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
—Eli Khamarov