Punishment Quotes

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

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.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.