„Do not hurry over punishments and do not be pleased and do not be proud of your power to punish.“

— Ali
„But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„The head of Christians does not, as a rule, have power to punish secular wrongs with a capital penalty and other bodily penalties and it is for thus punishing such wrongs that temporal power and riches are chiefly necessary; such punishment is granted chiefly to the secular power.“
— William of Ockham
„Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.“
— Rick Riordan