Punishment Quotes
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Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."
Student: "Prone. — Kristin Hannah
Student: "Prone. — Kristin Hannah
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.
— Sun Tzu
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
— Elizabeth Bibesco
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment
are all the blackest of black lies. — Emily Post
are all the blackest of black lies. — Emily Post
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe
fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
— Louis Sachar
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If you have enemies, forgive them. Forgiveness is always the best revenge and unforgettable punishment.
— Debasish Mridha
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
— William J. Clinton
He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.
— Ravindra Shukla
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
— Andre Gide
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
— Lawrence Durrell
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
— Jacqueline Carey
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
— Arlen Specter
Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)
— Vince Flynn
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
— Conrad Black
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
— Samuel Johnson
We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
— Wendell Berry
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There
— George Lakoff
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
— Cato The Elder
It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
— Anne Rice
War ... is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
— Thomas Jefferson
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
— Seneca The Younger
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] — Tacitus
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] — Tacitus
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
— George Herbert
We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.
— Albert Camus
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.
— Anjem Choudary
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain De Botton
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
— Khaled Hosseini
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
— Walter Dean Myers
He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.
— Jussi Adler-Olsen
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
— George Washington
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
— Werner Herzog
Service without reward is punishment.
— George Herbert
The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
— Norm MacDonald
Leo's very existence had been a kind of perpetual punishment for Vasili. So, then, why did he miss him?
— Tom Rob Smith
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
— Hosea Ballou
Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West
Even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?
— Frances Noyes Hart
Tonight, she'll bend for my punishment, tremble for my touch, and I'll risk it all to show her exactly what she means to me.
— Pam Godwin
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.
— Sallie Tisdale
Sin and the sinner both deserve punishment
— Kim Soo-hyun
Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.
— Danny Silk
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
— Ernest Van Den Haag
Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.
— Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
— George Berkeley
Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?
— Jean Said Makdisi
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
— Robert Kennedy
There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
— Markus Zusak
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...
— Anne Rice
There is no greater pain or punishment than memory.
— Victoria Aveyard
Monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.
— Frederic Bastiat
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
— Dante Alighieri
I knew how to prepare for punishment. And I knew how to glue back my shattered pieces afterward. That was it. I didn't know how to endure anyone else.
— Pepper Winters
he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I think that what people who've committed crimes need isn't punishment, but rather the knowledge of the pain of being forgiven.
— Inio Asano
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.
— Stanley Kubrick
The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.
— Tim Kreider
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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!
— Gil Gerard
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
He's an Old Testament guy. He believes in punishment, a God of vengeance and hatred. He's a hater himself.
— Phil Harvey
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
— Mother Teresa
Though punishment be slow, still it comes.
— George Herbert
Sometimes the true punishment for miscreants and wrongdoers is having to be the person that they are.
— Jim Lyon
A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity.
— Brian L. Weiss
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
— Laird Barron
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
— Hosea Ballou
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
— Simone Weil