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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

— William Ernest Hocking

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

— Saint Augustine

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

— Saint Augustine

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

— Voltaire

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.

— Cesare Beccaria

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

— Charles B. Rangel

✗Opposing Perspectives

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?

— Cesare Beccaria

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

— Ovid