Quotes About Punishment

sorry, Mr. McCoy," Sara Doolan sing-songed, sounding not the least bit sorry. "But, see, I broke curfew last night and my mom says I'm grounded tonight? Like, my boyfriend's car broke down and we couldn't get home? And now my mom's so pissed off? And she's grounded me?

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

Current youth policy and parenting advice teeter between high-anxiety child protection and high-anger child punishment. It would appear that children are fragilely innocent until the moment they step over some line, at which point they become instantly, irredeemably wicked.

Are you aware of the penalties reserved for freethinkers? I could send you to the block. Good.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

The world is a penal institution.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

It was the way of his father's house. Carrot and stick.

Of course men can't know you when you're unclean,' said Hilda. 'It says so in the Bible. That's why it's called the curse. It's God's punishment.' 'For what?' 'Giving Adam the apple, I suppose.' 'He didn't have to eat it.' 'Yes he did. If someone offers you food, it's only manners to take it. Why are you always so argumentative?

To be silent and consumed by fire is the worst punishment on earth

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes.

Une nation qui tolère les quartiers de taudis, les égoûts à ciel ouvert, les classes surpeuplées, et qui ose châtier les jeunes délinquants, me fait penser à cette vieille ivrognesse qui vomissait sur ses gosses à longueur de semaine et giflait le plus petit, par hasard, un dimanche, parce qu'il avait bavé sur son tablier. (p. 41)

Entonces descubrí lo que no sabía, que estaba infinitamente cansado, que me importaba un carajo el honor, que me daba lo mismo la impunidad que el castigo, y que la venganza era demasiada carga para mis años.

Meet Bob... Bob is in this cage because he tried to steal my cookie. Haha Bob, Haha.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense...When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

Para creer en la resurrección de la carne, tal vez sea necesario haber vencido a la carne. El castigo de aquellos que han abusado de ella es no haber podido ni siquiera imaginar su resurrección.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that because God is love everything is going to be sweet, beautiful, and happy and that no one will be punished for his sins . . . God's love provided the cross of Jesus, by which we can have forgiveness and cleansing.