Punishment Quotes
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.
Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude.
The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.
He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.