Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Mary Doria Russell

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Philip Yancey

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Moshe Dayan

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

Victor Hugo

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Vicente Fox

When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.

Thomas Paine

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Roger Ebert

The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?

Robert Quine

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Samuel Johnson

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Samuel Johnson

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

Robert Baden-Powell

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Ric Flair

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Robert Duvall

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.

Roald Dahl

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Ujjwal Nikam

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Samuel Johnson

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Vittorio Alfieri

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Vittorio Alfieri

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

William Blackstone

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

Werner Herzog

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

W. S. Gilbert

Let the punishment fit the crime.

William Cowper

Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

Tim Vine

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Thomas Bernhard

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Punctuality is the sole of business.

Thomas Brooks

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

Horace

Punishment follows close on crime.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Jeremy Bentham

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.