Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacqueline Carey

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

Christopher Hitchens

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

Gary Becker

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

George Washington

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

George Washington

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Jeanette Winterson

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Jerzy Kosinski

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

Jerzy Kosinski

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.

George Eliot

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Geoffrey Fisher

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

George Herbert

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

George Steinbrenner

Let's not talk punishment.

George Soros

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Euripides

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Francis Chan

It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

Harriet Martineau

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Hosea Ballou

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Hosea Ballou

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou

Hatred is self-punishment.

Horace

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Horace

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Hannah Arendt

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.