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“In a well-governed State, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a State is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will...” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“I answer that, Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.” Oscar Wilde, “An Ideal Husband” - 1895

“Now the worst part of the punishment is that he who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.” Plato, “The Republic”

“And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them.” Jack London, “White Fang” - 1906

“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“Too punitive for conciliation, too lenient to keep Germany from recovering, the treaty of Versailles condemned the exhausted democracies to constant vigilance and to the need for permanent enforcement against an irreconcilable and revisionist...” Henry Kissinger, “Diplomacy” - 1994

“AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Haunted” - 2005

“Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.” Charles Bukowski, “Factotum” - 1975

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