Punish Quotes

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.