Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine the Great

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Chanakya

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Charles Mackay

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Bill McCollum

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Bertrand Russell

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Carl Jung

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

Billy Strayhorn

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

Dorothy Dix

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Dalai Lama

Sin contains its own judgement and punishment.

J. C. Ryle

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Steve Spurrier

He's taken his punishment and didn't whimper or complain. He served his time and is ready to go.

Martin Luther

I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Nassau William Senior

The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

Myrtle Reed

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Mort Sahl

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

John Ruskin

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Philip Roth

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

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.