Punishment Quotes

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.

Daniel didn't have to shoulder his punishment alone anymore. It was something they could do together.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

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.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.

The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.