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To kiss the rod. - Unattributed Author, History of Reynard the Fox, (William Caxton's translation, printed by him) (1481) See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. - Joseph Addison, Cato (act III, sc. 5) If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. - Saint Thomas Aquinas And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. - Bible, Deuteronomy (ch. XIX, v. 21) And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. - Bible, Genesis (ch. IV, v. 13) Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. - Bible, Genesis (ch. IX, v. 6) And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. - Bible, Leviticus (ch. XIX, v. 19-20) 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. - Bible, Luke (ch. XVII, v. 2) And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. - Bible, Mark (ch. IX, v. 43-44) He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XIII, v. 24) Let them stew in their own grease (or juice). - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, to Mr. Malet at Meaux, at the time of the Franco-German war He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping. - Thomas Brooks Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow: Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 121) Frieth in his own grease. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (V, 6069), The Wife of Bath's Tale Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Legibus (bk. III, 20) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. [Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Officiis (I, 23) There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. - Ramsey Clark He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest.] - Claudian (Claudianus), De Consulatu Malii Theodori Panygyris (CCXXVII) I stew all night in my own grease. - Nathaniel Cotton, Virgil Travestie (p. 35), (ed. 1807) 'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse--Ovid That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Daniel Deronda (bk. V, ch. XXXVI) Send them into everlasting Coventry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Manners, during English Civil War, officers were sent for punishment to the garrison at Conventry Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. - Euripides, Fragment Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. - Henry Ford Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. - Elizabeth Fry Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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