"The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s the faces of the white men in the crowd. There’s the photo of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana in 1930, in which a white man can be seen grinning at the camera as he tenderly holds the hand of his wife or girlfriend...Their cruelty made them feel good, it made them feel proud, it made them feel happy. And it made them feel closer to one another... Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump."

"Lynching is an absolute evil; it represents the survival of an obsolete civilization, the perpetuation of a struggle of races which has to disappear; it is a fault without justification or excuse."

"During the first Intifada, before the PA was established, hundreds of alleged collaborators were lynched, tortured or killed, at times with the implied support of the PLO. Street killings of alleged collaborators continue in the current Intifada ... but so far in much fewer numbers."

"It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass."

"Lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West."

"Send them into everlasting Coventry."

"Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad."

"My punishment is greater than I can bear"

"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."

"Culpam pœna premit comes."

"Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello."

"For whoso spareth the spring [switch] spilleth his children."

"Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth."

"Quidquid multis peccatur inultum est."

"It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea."

"The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good."

"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

"Just prophet, let the damn'd one dwell Full in the sight of Paradise, Beholding heaven and feeling hell."

"Ay—down to the dust with them, slaves as they are, From this hour, let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnant in chains."

"Die and be damned."

"Æquo animo pœnam, qui meruere, ferant."

"Paucite paucarum diffundere crimen in omnes."

"Estque pati pœnas quam meruisse minus."

"Deos agere curam rerum humanarum credi, ex usu vitæ est: pœnasque maleficiis, aliquando seras, nunquam autem irritas esse."

"Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes."

"But if the first Eve Hard doom did receive When only one apple had she, What a punishment new Must be found out for you, Who eating hath robb'd the whole tree."

"He that spareth his rod hateth his son."

"To kiss the rod."

"Quod antecedit tempus, maxima venturi supplicii pars est."

"Corrigendus est, qui peccet, et admonitione et vi, et molliter et aspere, meliorque tam sibi quam alii faciendus, non sine castigatione, sed sine ira."

"Maxima est factæ injuriæ pæna, fecisse: nec quisquam gravius adficitur, quam qui ad supplicium pœnitentiæ traditur."

"Nec ulla major pœna nequitiæ est, quam quod sibi et suis displicet."

"Sequitur superbos ultor a tergo deus."

"Minor in parvis fortuna furit, Leviusque ferit leviora Deus."

"There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God Than from theyr children to spare the rod."

"Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas."

"* Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus."

"The woman, Spaniel, the walnut tree, The more you beat them the better they be."

"Verbera sed audi."

"Ah, miser! et si quis primo perjuria celat, Sera tamen tacitis Pœna venit pedibus."

"They spare the rod, and spoyle the child."

"What heavy guilt upon him lies! How cursed is his name! The ravens shall pick out his eyes, And eagles eat the same."

"Du spottest noch? Erzittre! Immer schlafen Des Rächers Blitze nicht."

"Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to."

"Jupiter is late in looking into his note-book."

"By an odd amalgam of liberal economic theory and Beccaria on punishment, nineteenth-century thinkers would replicate this exceptional relationship between markets and punishment: natural orderliness in the economic sphere, but government intervention in the penal realm. This is most evident in Jeremy Bentham’s work. The contrast between Bentham’s presumption of quietism in economic matters and his arch-interventionism in the penal domain effectively reproduced and reiterated the Physiocratic duality of economy and police. On the public economy side, Bentham tended toward Adam Smith’s liberalism. His Manual of Political Economy, written in the mid-1790s, rehearsed a presumption of governmental quietism based on his stringent belief in the superiority of individuals’ information and self-interest. But on the punishment side, Bentham embraced Beccaria’s philosophy whole cloth—especially Beccaria’s notion that policing is a sphere of human activity that must be shot through with government intervention. In fact, the criminal code, for Bentham, was precisely a “grand catalogue of prices” by means of which the government set the value of deviance. The penal code was a menu of fixed prices—the polar opposite of laissez-faire."

"I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many."

"Punishment is intended for example; but a person insane can have no design; and to punish him can be no example."

"It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil."

"Furiosus absentis loco est. Non multum distant a brutis qui ratione carent: A madman is like a man who is absent. Those who want reason are not far removed from brutes."