Quotes About Punishment

Korku cezadan çok daha beterdir, çünkü ceza bellidir, a??r da olsa, hafif de, hiçbir zaman belirsizliÄŸin dehÅŸeti kadar, o sonsuz gerilimin ürkünçlüÄŸü kadar kötü deÄŸildir.

La paura è peggio del castigo; perché alla fine il castigo è qualcosa di determinato e, sia pesante o meno, è sempre meglio della spaventosa incertezza, della tremenda tensione che si prolunga all'infinito.

Zaman?n çoktan sildiÄŸi bir hata için cezaland?r?labilir miydi insan?

You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end...

Ah but' 'there'll be no butter in hell!

The husband has the right to avenge himself if his wife is unfaithful. The village has known for many moons that White Eagle planned to steal Prairie Flower away from Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf has learned of this and punished his wife.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.

You messed up with the wrong Angel. My weapon is a double-edge sword. One side of the blade represents Truth and the other represents Karma.

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Those who tried to escape received the customary punishment, as Nicholson harrowingly described: After they had stripped the sufferer naked, they inserted the iron pointed stake into the lower termination of the vertebrae, and thence forced it up near his back bone, until it appeared between the shoulders, avoiding the vital parts. The stake was then raised in the air and the poor sufferer exposed to the view of the other slaves, writhing in…insupportable agony.

Sammy felt...that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving. He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel.

Defiantly serving out the inhumane term of a punishment she had imposed on herself, confusing obedience with rebellion and vindication with endurance. "Come," he told her. "Put your costume

that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.

Sammy felt, that morning, with his ribs bruised and a wan flavor of chlorine at the back of his mouth, that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.

More inmates died of suicide than the needle on death row in California.

This, after all, is the king who passed the law about putting trousers on cats and dogs, who made too-loud laughter a punishable crime. According to rumor, he was abused by his father, the last king. But that's the story people always tell, isn't it, when they want to explain inexplicable behavior?

Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.

Nothing irks some folks more than losing a God who is wrathful, angry, retributive and punishing. 

Man's inability to see the power of regression to the mean leaves him blind to the nature of the world around him. We are exposed to a lifetime schedule in which we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though.