Punishment Quotes
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.
If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.
Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
