Punishment Quotes

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

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.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

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!

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

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.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

Let's not talk punishment.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.