No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
~ Hannah Arendt
Jerry Lee Lewis on Jail
“I never went to the penitentiary. Close, but I never made it in.”
~ Jerry Lee Lewis.
Tim Kreider on Work
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”
~ Tim Kreider
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/
Hunter Thompson on Punishment
“You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways–but it doesn’t hurt as much when you’re right.”
~ Hunter Thompson
Justinian the Great on Punishment
“Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.”
~ Justinian the Great
William Shakespeare on Punishment
“They’ll have me whipt for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipt for lying; and sometimes I am whipt for holding my peace.”
~ William Shakespeare