Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Buchanan

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What punishments of God are not gifts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Jeremy Bentham

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Harriet Martineau

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Horace

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Horace Mann

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.

Euripides

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

Francis Quarles

Wickedness is its own punishment.

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.

Joyce Carol Oates

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

Genghis Khan

I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me.

Genghis Khan

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

Tennessee Williams

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

Robert Duvall

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Roald Dahl

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

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.

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.

Nancy Reagan

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

Jorge Luis Borges

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

Khaled Hosseini

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Lois Lowry

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

Edward Bond

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

John le Carre

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

Ely Culbertson

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Emanuel Swedenborg

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Elliott Abrams

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.