Quotes About Punishment

Petty theft, murder, forgery, arson, and the abduction of women were all capital offenses, so the death penalty for heresy was neither unusual nor extreme.50

Quando gli dei vogliono punirci, avverano i nostri desideri.

I was told you take your capital cases seriously down here.

An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.