Punishment Quotes

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

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.

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

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.

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

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

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

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.

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!

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.

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.