Quotes About Punishment

Detainees were not allowed to talk to each other, but we enjoyed looking at each other. The punishment for talking was hanging the detainee by his hands with the feet barely touching the ground.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

You don't want to be comforted, do you?" he asks, sadly. "You'd rather be guilty. You know they made up the idea of original sin not to punish but to console us. When all the incomprehensible shit goes down, we can blame ourselves, it was something we did or didn't do. Without guilt, we are irrelevant. And that is so much worse.

Life is not a gift for being good, anymore than, death is punishment for being evil.

Don't give a reward for bad behavior.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Punishment creates crime.

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Worship Me Like the Goddess I Am or There Will Be Some Serious Smiting." Jubilee

Someone's looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy," said Melody.

The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.

Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

Edith Wharton with the death penalty

Retribution