Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
Benigno Aquino III
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
Richard Attenborough
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also... →
Gary Becker
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Jose Bergamin
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley