Famous quotes containing the words punishment and/or mechanism:
“Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)