In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.
David Hackworth

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Charles de Montesquieu

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
George Weinberg

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.
Meir Kahane

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
Walter Bagehot

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
Robert Barclay

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
Anselm of Canterbury

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
Herodotus

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
John Sutter

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
John Walters

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
Salvatore Quasimodo

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Rush Limbaugh

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Thomas Babington