Quotes about punishment
punishment government tools
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
punishment justice prevention
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.
punishment favors capital-punishment
I favor capital punishment. It saves lives. Nancy Reagan
punishment lines way
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment. Lance Armstrong
punishment giving criminals
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 Stuart Mill
punishment forever religion
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 Shelby Spong
punishment sin
Many without punishment, none without sin. John Ray
punishment despair absence
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment. James Fox
punishment isolation cry
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. Gary Chapman
punishment sin committed
I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me. Genghis Khan
punishment people sin
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!
punishment two favors
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. Hedda Hopper
punishment favour thieves
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. Mahatma Gandhi
punishment gains india
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
punishment vices complaining
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? John Churton Collins
punishment evil gains
Evil gains work their punishment. Sophocles
punishment littles endure
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. Robert Herrick
punishment trying mouths
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. Tamora Pierce
punishment suffering example
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. Tacitus
punishment jail solitude
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. Soren Kierkegaard
punishment would-be death-penalty
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. Woody Allen
punishment two prison
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. William Gilmore Simms
punishment guilt terrible
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt. William Ellery Channing
punishment cities suffering
The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin. Saint Francis de Sales
punishment causes martyr
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. Saint Augustine
punishment purpose messages
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society. Ujjwal Nikam
punishment suffering slave
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. Robert Mugabe
punishment people population
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. Richard Paul Evans
punishment medicine suffering
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
punishment people trouble
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God. Russell Johnson
punishment government done
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Robert Baden-Powell
punishment i-can
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business. Ric Flair
punishment use pay
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. Robert Duvall