Punishment Quotes

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

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

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.