Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a punishment, but it's protecting society as a whole.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making significant changes in a whistleblower's 'working conditions' as punishment for speaking out.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.