Punishment Quotes
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. - Charles Churchill
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard Shaw
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces, sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. - Matthew Henry
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. - Chuang Tzu
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. - Joseph de Maistre
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. - Oscar Wilde
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. - Horace
Yes. I am a dreamer. For 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. - Oscar Wilde
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death. - Albert Einstein
Let the punishment fit the crime-Proverb
Punishment is lame, but it comes-George Herbert
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts-Charles de Montesquieu
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood-William Shakespeare
The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars.-Anwar Ibrahim
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment-Voltaire
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.-Leonardo da Vinci
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.-Elbert Hubbard
Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol.-Vivian Stanshall
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.-Oscar Wilde
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons-Richard Wright
Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt-Anne O'Hare McCormick
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.-Elbert Hubbard
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.-Orrin Hatch
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others-Juvenal
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws-Jerry Falwell
I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.-Genghis Khan
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men-Plato
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor-Henry Louis Mencken
Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them-Unknown
Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings-Ambrose Bierce
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.-Muriel Rukeyser
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.-Ellen Key
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.-Thomas S. Szasz
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.-Thomas S. Szasz
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.-Alcee Hastings
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.-Paul Gallico
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.-Hannah Arendt
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.-Helen Garner
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.-Eli Khamarov
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.-Mohandas Gandhi
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.-Barbara Deming
Punishment is justice for the unjust.-Saint Augustine
Punishment is lame, but it comes.-George Herbert
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.-Elizabeth Fry
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.-Thomas Szasz
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.-John Ruskin
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.-Bruno Bettelheim
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.-Georges Bernanos
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.-Zhuangzi
Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it.-Alicia F. Lieberman
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.-Samuel Richardson
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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.-Laurence Housman
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.-Lawrence Durrell
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.-Robert Green Ingersoll
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.-Emanuel Swedenborg
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.-Walter Kaufmann
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.-Jerzy Kosinski
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.-Yakov Smirnoff
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.-Althea Gibson
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.-Richard Attenborough
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.-Ric Flair
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.-Tony Campolo
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.-David Knopfler
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.-George Orwell
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.-Benjamin Tucker
I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.-Jessica Hahn
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.-Aldrich Ames
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.-Edvard Munch
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.-L. Neil Smith
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.-James Madison
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.-Bill Maher
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.-Robert Duvall