In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
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.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.