Punishment Quotes

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

I’m not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.