Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's important we understand our system seeks justice and not revenge.
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
Revenge proves its own executioner.
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Justice is revenge.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.