Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let the punishment fit the crime.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Let the punishment fit the crime. Noxiae poena par esto.

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

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

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

The offender never pardons.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

I believe that capital punishment serves no useful purpose and is a form of revenge.

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.

There is no justice if wrongdoers go unpunished and victims do not feel avenged.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.