Horace Quotes

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

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

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Shall any man be above Justice. Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice. When great crimes were committed I am for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

If I catch them, I will kill them.

Let the punishment match the offense.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we have to confront is that that impulse is so easily transmuted into something corrosive and corrupt in how it's actually put into practice. That's the danger. It's not that the impulse is wrong or unjust or not totally righteous. It's that the ways in which the system that operates, the system that we've constructed tends to not deliver the promise of equity we might want, when we look to the system to provide it.

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

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

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

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