Punish Quotes

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

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

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.

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.