“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”

—  William Ernest Hocking

The Coming World Civilization (1956), p. 7.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt." by William Ernest Hocking?
William Ernest Hocking photo
William Ernest Hocking31
American philosopher 1873–1966

Related quotes

William Greenough Thayer Shedd photo

“The law is obligated to punish the transgressor as much as the transgressor is obligated to obey the law — law has no option. Justice has but one function. The necessity of penalty is as great as the necessity of obligation. The law itself is under law; that is, it is under the necessity of its own nature; and therefore the only possible way whereby a transgressor can escape the penalty of the law, is for a substitute to endure it for him. The deep substrata and base of all God's ethical attributes are eternal law and impartial justice.”

William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1820–1894) American theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 267.

“Only he who has the power to punish can pardon.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

Lionel Shriver photo

“… You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Noam Chomsky photo

“The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

W. H. Auden photo

“The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.”

W. H. Auden book The Dyer's Hand

"The Prince's Dog", p. 201
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

Theodore Roosevelt photo

“Each people can do justice to itself only if it does justice to others”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

1910s, The World Movement (1910)
Context: Each people can do justice to itself only if it does justice to others; but each people can do its part in the world movement for all only if it first does its duty within its own household. The good citizen must be a good citizen of his own country first before he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at large.

Albert Einstein photo

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: The World As I See It

Haruki Murakami photo

“You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 24: Shadow Grounds
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

C.G. Jung photo

“You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

p 63
The Undiscovered Self (1958)

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary

Glorify his name!, The Root of the Righteous, Ch. 39.

Related topics