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 Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

 Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
  Richard Wright

 One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others

 One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others

 Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
  Elbert Hubbard

 Punishment is lame, but it comes

 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.

 The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men
  Plato

 What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt
  Anne O'Hare McCormick

 Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt
  Anne O'Hare McCormick

 Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood
  William Shakespeare


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