Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Albom

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Mitch Albom

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

Mark Twain

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Nick Saban

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

Joseph Joubert

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Murray Rothbard

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

Samuel Butler

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

They figuratively punched him around until he said something.

There was pushing and a lot of talking but I did not punch him,

Jeff Smith

It was a real one-two punch of a storm.

I'm not going to punish him for being hurt.

David Jones

I'm surprised he won. He's just punching it out there.

John Shelby Spong

The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

John Ray

Many without punishment, none without sin.

James Fox

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

Gary Chapman

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Hedda Hopper

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.

Malcolm Mclaren

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

Mahatma Gandhi

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

Mahatma Gandhi

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

John Churton Collins

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

H. L. Mencken

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

H. L. Mencken

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

H. L. Mencken

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

George Herbert

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Michelle Alexander

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Michelle Alexander

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.

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.