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Quotes about Punishment

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AnonymousWhy do we kill people who kill people to show them that killing people is wrong?
Brendan Behan
(1923 - 1964)
When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Friedrich NietzscheBut thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
Woody Allen
(1935 - )
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
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