Benjamin Tucker Quotes

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.

If I do something wrong, make me pay for it.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

Anyone who's been in my court knows my maxim: 'If you make them, you pay for them!'

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

The punishment of the wrongdoer is not designed as atonement for a crime; it is a solace to the individual who has suffered a private wrong.

Recompense injury with justice.

As one voice must labor speak—to reward its friends and punish its enemies.

The injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

There is no justice if wrongdoers go unpunished and victims do not feel avenged.

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.