Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Hosea Ballou

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Hosea Ballou

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

Hosea Ballou

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Hosea Ballou

Hatred is self-punishment.

Horace

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Horace

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Hannah Arendt

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Gore Vidal

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

George Bernard Shaw

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Geoffrey Fisher

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

George Herbert

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

George Steinbrenner

Let's not talk punishment.

George Soros

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Euripides

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Francis Chan

It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

Erin Hunter

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

Florence King

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Henry Lawson

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Helen Keller

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

George Eliot

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

George Eliot

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Samuel Butler

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

George Herbert

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.

Jayne Mansfield

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Joseph Joubert

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Murray Rothbard

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

Hypatia

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.