Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn vos Savant

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Martin Scorsese

The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of respect. They said, "Oh, he's okay, he can take it. Don't hit him." The guys were pretty big, and I had asthma.

Peter De Vries

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Penn Jillette

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Penn Jillette

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

Marlo Thomas

... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.

Max Lucado

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

Matthew Henry

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Michel Foucault

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Michel Foucault

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

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.

Nancy Reagan

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

Lance Armstrong

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

John Stuart Mill

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

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.

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!

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.

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?

This is our system. It's the only way we can punish them.

Sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.

Robert Herrick

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Tamora Pierce

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Tacitus

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Woody Allen

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.