Punishment Quotes
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.
Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
