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Your Quotes for 29 June 2005 - Punishment

The US Supreme Court handed down two rulings limiting capital punishment on this day, once in 1972 and a narrower ruling in 1977. As with many citizens, I've had mixed feelings on the subject. Fortunately, I haven't ever had to serve on a jury faced with the question. Here are a few thoughts on Punishment.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
     - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
     - Chuang Tzu, 369 - 286 BC

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.
     - John M. Wilson

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
     - Thomas S. Szasz

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?
     - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860 - 1904

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
     - Juvenal

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