Quotes about punishment
punishment method collectives
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective. Moshe Dayan
punishment world power-politics
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. Ely Culbertson
punishment evil
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. Emanuel Swedenborg
punishment stories merit
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment. Elliott Abrams
punishment way wealth
Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth. John Conyers
punishment said cruelty
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. John Bunyan
punishment people want
If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.
punishment democracy capital-punishment
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. Lionel Jospin
punishment unjust forgotten
An unjust punishment is never forgotten. Penelope Fitzgerald
punishment mind prison
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. John Locke
punishment skins london
Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London. John le Carre
punishment execution unnecessary
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. Kate Mulgrew
punishment might welcome
If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment. Lars von Trier
punishment long may
It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes. Julius Caesar
punishment grease juice
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice). Otto von Bismarck
punishment artistic-life judging
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward. Oscar Wilde
punishment world earth
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. Martin Luther
punishment mirrors glutton-for-punishment
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror. P. G. Wodehouse
punishment bears sin
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. Ovid
punishment bitterness delay
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
punishment prison crime
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
punishment discipline behavior
Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior. Nick Saban
punishment wife domestic-violence
...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it. Nicholas Sparks
punishment community political
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
punishment community employment
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
punishment class rights
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. Lyman Trumbull
punishment forgiving finals
Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive. Martin Luther King, Jr.
punishment abortion birth
No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions. Mitt Romney
punishment hands justice
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment. R. C. Sproul
punishment trials merciful
Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good. Omar Suleiman
punishment crime familiar
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. Oliver Goldsmith
punishment limits retribution
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. Marcus Tullius Cicero
punishment equal offence
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]