Quotes about punish
punishment evil gains
Evil gains work their punishment. Sophocles
punishment rewards
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
punishment death-penalty capital-punishment
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. Scott Turow
punishment stupidity together
One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity. Sun Tzu
punishment people trouble
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God. Russell Johnson
punishment eyebrows clothes
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear? Rick Riordan
punishment special return
Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.
punishment capital-punishment has-beens
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. Richard Attenborough
punishment jail solitude
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. Soren Kierkegaard
punishment plot guilty
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Vittorio Alfieri
punishment doe crime
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
punishment people hell
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. William Blackstone
punishment years disagree
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere. Werner Herzog
punishment fulfillment sentences
To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! Samuel Taylor Coleridge
punishment fit crime
Let the punishment fit the crime. W. S. Gilbert
punishment hands sin
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. William Cowper
punishment rewards consequence
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. William Ralph Inge
punishment toes nails
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse. Walter Savage Landor
punishment matter belts
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment. Walter Dean Myers
punishment race treats
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. William J. Brennan
punishment purpose principles
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
punishment would-be death-penalty
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. Woody Allen
punishment political should
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed. William James
punishment two prison
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. William Gilmore Simms
punishment guilt terrible
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt. William Ellery Channing
punishment cities suffering
The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin. Saint Francis de Sales
punishment causes martyr
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. Saint Augustine
punishment mind disorder
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
punishment suffering lasts
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.
punishment giving police
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. Will Rogers
punishment community criminals
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime. W. E. B. Du Bois
punishment may vices
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. William Hazlitt
punishment ruins
We are living even now among punishments and ruins. Wendell Berry