Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Alcee Hastings

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
Helen Garner

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
Eli Khamarov

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine

Punishment is lame, but it comes.
George Herbert

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
Georges Bernanos

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi

Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it.
Alicia F. Lieberman

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Laurence Housman