Punishment Quotes

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

One is punished best for one's virtues.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

Though punishment be slow, still it comes.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

Let's not talk punishment.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.