Punish Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.