Punish

Famous quotes containing the word punish:

“I should be very willing to redress
Men’s wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes,
Had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale
Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Officials don’t punish those who send gifts.”
—Chinese proverb.