Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

Though punishment be slow, still it comes.

Georg Brandes

Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

Jerry Brown

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Giacomo Casanova

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.

Laird Barron

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Oscar Wilde

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

Oscar Wilde

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Oscar Wilde

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Lyman Trumbull

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Ernst Junger

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

Erin Hunter

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

Florence King

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Henry Lawson

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Helen Keller

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

Cassandra Clare

Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.

George Eliot

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, 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.

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.

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.

J. C. Ryle

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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