Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Mugabe

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.

Richard Paul Evans

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Saint Augustine

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

Thomas Paine

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Robert Baden-Powell

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Ric Flair

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Spiro T. Agnew

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Tony Campolo

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

Thomas Bernhard

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Thomas Brooks

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

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.

Roger Ebert

The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?

Samuel Johnson

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Samuel Johnson

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

Samuel Johnson

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

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.

Vanna Bonta

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

Sophocles

Evil gains work their 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.

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.

Richard Attenborough

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

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.

Vittorio Alfieri

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Vittorio Alfieri

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

William Blackstone

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.