Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B. F. Skinner

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

C. S. Lewis

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

It doesn't surprise me the punishment is so lenient.

He's a tough guy. He had to be with all the punishment he was taking.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Bertrand Russell

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Benigno Aquino III

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Abraham Lincoln

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Dennis Prager

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Elbert Hubbard

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Elbert Hubbard

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Eduardo Galeano

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Edward Abbey

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

Auberon Waugh

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Adolf Hitler

This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

Agatha Christie

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Cormac McCarthy

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

David Jeremiah

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

Christopher Paolini

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

Albert Camus

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Conrad Black

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Clarence Darrow

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

Doug Stanhope

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

David Frum

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

David Platt

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.