Punishment Quotes
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.
All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
