Quotes About Punishment

Anyone who's been in my court knows my maxim: 'If you make them, you pay for them!'

In death row every rule in society is flipped.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

I did four years of an eight year sentence and I'm on parole.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

The long arm of the law ends in the pimp hand of justice.

We appear to be hardwired to punish those who have slighted us, even if—and this is the counterintuitive bit—even if our acts of vengeance hurt us more than those who have trespassed against us.

While the entire US population has increased by about a third since 1980, the federal prison population has grown at an astonishing rate – by almost 800 per cent. It's still growing – despite the fact that federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 per cent above capacity. Even though this country comprises just 5 per cent of the world's population, we incarcerate almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

Seemingly irrational behavior can be understood as culturally acceptable attempts to secure reward or avoid punishment in the transcendental future.

In 1979, the Swedish parliament passed a law declaring "A child may not be subjected to physical punishment or other injurious or humiliating treatment.

When we ignore the connections between corporal punishments and authoritarianism, however, as most of us generally do, the etiology of authoritarianism is often obscured and the childhood roots of adult authoritarianism remain unnoticed.

O homem era advogado e, por vezes, quando nos armamos em espertos com advogados, eles chamam-lhe desrespeito e metem-nos na cadeia.

For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.

The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed, but if lost or neglected, the whole continent will partake of the misfortune; and there is no punishment which that man will not deserve, be he who, or what, or where he will, that may be the means of sacrificing a season so precious and useful.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is - about how devoid of compassion it is. It's not healing the harm that victims experience. It's not rehabilitating people. And in many ways, it's making us less safe.

There should be consequences for those who openly voice racist and fascist opinions. Our politicians should stand up way more; our justice system should stand up way more and punish these people harder than they ever did before.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.