Punishment Quotes
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds. (Quote by - Charles S. Dutton)
Every sin brings its punishment with it. (Quote by - Romanian Proverb)
Evil gains work their punishment. (Quote by - Sophocles)
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Send them into everlasting Coventry. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. (Quote by - Kamisese Mara)
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! (Quote by - Gil Gerard)
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. (Quote by - Robert Baden-Powell)
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. (Quote by - Ovid)
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
Punishment is justice for the unjust. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. (Quote by - Max Nordau)
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
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. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. (Quote by - Ellen Key)
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. (Quote by - Charlize Theron)
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. (Quote by - Bible)
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. (Quote by - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon)
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. (Quote by - Ida B. Wells)
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. (Quote by - Bible)
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. (Quote by - Jayne Mansfield)
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (Quote by - Bible)
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. (Quote by - Joseph De Maistre)
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. (Quote by - Althea Gibson)
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. (Quote by - Paul Simon)
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. (Quote by - Euripides)
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. (Quote by - Bram Fischer)
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. (Quote by - Bible)
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. (Quote by - William J. Brennan)
Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow: Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. (Quote by - Jerzy Kosinski)
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. (Quote by - Caryl Chessman)
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment. (Quote by - Aaron Neville)
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. (Quote by - Edwin M. Stanton)
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant )
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business. (Quote by - Ric Flair)
Something lingering with boiling oil in it. something humorous but lingering with either boiling oil or melted lead. (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
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. (Quote by - Steve Allen)
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. (Quote by - Tony Campolo)
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Let's not talk punishment. (Quote by - George Steinbrenner)
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. (Quote by - L. Neil Smith)
Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. (Quote by - Jerry Falwell)
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment. (Quote by - Jessica Hahn)
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)
Punishment follows close on crime. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. (Quote by - Lionel Jospin)
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. (Quote by - Emanuel Swedenborg)
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. (Quote by - George Orwell)
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. (Quote by - Gregg Easterbrook)
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. (Quote by - Euripides)
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment. (Quote by - Billy Strayhorn)
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)
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. (Quote by - David Knopfler)
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. (Quote by - Michel Foucault)
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. (Quote by - George Herbert)
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. (Quote by - Robert Duvall )
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. (Quote by - Bram Fischer)
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. (Quote by - Yakov Smirnoff)
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Fear follows crime and is its punishment. (Quote by - Voltaire)
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. (Quote by - Claudian (Claudianus)
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. (Quote by - Madonna Ciccone)
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (Quote by - Bible)
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. (Quote by - John Locke)
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. (Quote by - Wilhelm Frick)
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. (Quote by - Aldrich Ames)
Let them stew in their own grease or juice. (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. (Quote by - Gary Becker)
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. (Quote by - Richard Attenborough)
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. (Quote by - Bible)
I stew all night in my own grease. (Quote by - Nathaniel Cotton)
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-To let the punishment fit the crime. (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. (Quote by - John Calvin)
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. (Quote by - Martin Van Buren)
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. (Quote by - Hedda Hopper)
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. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Frieth in his own grease. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. (Quote by - Bible)
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. (Quote by - Irwin Shaw)
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. (Quote by - Juvenal)
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. (Quote by - Orrin Hatch)
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. (Quote by - Elbert Green Hubbard)
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. (Quote by - James Madison)
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine. (Quote by - Plato)
