Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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.
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