Society...Institutions...PUNISHMENT
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1216 C
“Let the punishment be equal with the offence.” — Marcus Tulius Cicero
PUNISHMENT, Law, Effectiveness
1217 C
“To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned C to the offence, and they must be certain.”
— William Gilmore Simms
PUNISHMENT, Law, Effectiveness
1218
“The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.” — Oliver Goldsmith
PUNISHMENT, Law, Sin
1219
“It is not the severity of punishment that acts as a deterrent. It is it’s inevitability.”
— John Endsley
PUNISHMENT, Law, Sin
1220
“Severities should be dealt out all at once, that by their suddenness they may give less offense; benefits should be handed out drop by drop, that they may be relished the more.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
PUNISHMENT, Reward, Effectiveness, Law
1221
“Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.” — St. Augustine
PUNISHMENT, Law
1222 H
“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
— Elbert Hubbard
PUNISHMENT, Law, Conscience, Sin
1223
“We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.” — Michel de Montaigne
PUNISHMENT, Law, Death, Conscience, Sin, Knowledge
1224
“We will not punish a man because he hath offended, but that he may offend no more; nor does punishment ever look to the past, but to the future; for it is not the result of passion, but that the same thing be guarded against in time to come.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
PUNISHMENT, Law, Sin
1225
“He hurts the good who spares the bad.” — Publilius Syrus
PUNISHMENT, Law
1226 H
“Punishment is better than reward. It’s not as expensive.” — Rebecca L. Morgan
PUNISHMENT, Reward
1227
“Fact finding is more effective than fault finding.” — Carl Lotus Becker
PUNISHMENT, Errors, Pessimism, Effectiveness
1228
“Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.” — Henry Ford
PUNISHMENT, Anger, Decision Making, Pessimism
1229
“If someone criticizes me I am not any less because of that...Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.”
— Hugh Prather
PUNISHMENT, Perception, Excellence
1230 PHA
“Auditors are the people who go in after the war is lost and bayonet the wounded.” — P. Rubin
PUNISHMENT, Errors
PUNISHMENT Cross-References
Prudence—218 • Happiness—244 • Pessimism—278, 280 • Doubt—347 • Failure—392, 399 • Innovation—744 • Honesty—788, 790, 795 • Anger—835 • Hate—859 • Principles—952 • Conscience—978 • Sin—1014, 1016-1017 • Arts—1072 • Accountability—1148-1149, 1151, 1155-1156, 1160 • Reward—1207-1208 • Government—1252 • Law—1286-1287, 1302-1303, 1313 • Family & Friends—1367, 1380 • Death—1472
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