No good deed goes unpunished.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

—Clare Booth Luce

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

—Clare Booth Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

—Clare Booth Luce

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

—Jeph Jacques

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen

—Robert Ingersoll

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