Punishment Quotes

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Service without reward is punishment.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Punishment follows close on crime.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

A bad deed always brings a punishment.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

I stew all night in my own grease.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.