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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he cast into the sea, read more
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of
these little ones.
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
- Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
- Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
