Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It is unfair to us and now we are one of the smallest teams in double-A. Other schools have been recruiting and we see it as a punishment because of other schools.

Ronald Reagan

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Penelope Fitzgerald

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

Shunryu Suzuki

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

Lady Gregory

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Vanna Bonta

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

Sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.

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.

Tom Tancredo

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

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.

Steve Allen

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Tony Campolo

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Scott Turow

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

Sun Tzu

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.

Richard Attenborough

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Anna Jameson

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Saint Augustine

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Russell Johnson

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

Rick Riordan

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

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.

Ovid

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

Ovid

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Mary Doria Russell

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

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.

Victor Hugo

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Vicente Fox

When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.