Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Horace

Punishment follows close on crime.

Jean Giraudoux

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

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.

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.

Gore Vidal

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

James Buchanan

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What punishments of God are not gifts?

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.

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.

Horace

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Horace Mann

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.

Euripides

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

It just isn't right. Somebody should be punished for this.

Francis Quarles

Wickedness is its own punishment.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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.

Joyce Carol Oates

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

Genghis Khan

I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me.

Genghis Khan

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

Tennessee Williams

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

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.