Punishment Quotes

Punishment Quote of the day

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

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.

No one provokes me with impunity.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

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

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

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

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

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

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

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Every love that leads away from His love is in fact a punishment; only a love that leads to His love is a heartfelt and pure love.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.” “Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.