Quotes About Punishment

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment?

The Goddess didn't dish out favours and punishments in accordance with a rigid dogma; she was merely a feeling, the spark inside that made you laugh and dance or kept you close to the earth like a cat, stalking and turned-on with power.

he met this woman at the supermarket where he works.' She sighed. 'But he doesn't really love her! He's just punishing me … I mean, she's got no breasts.

The white American is not innately racist. I sense innate docility. He will follow the law if the leadership tells him to do that. He would not rebel if he thought he'd be punished. But if the laws are flouted and winked at, he'll wink, too.' - interview with Leona Brady

Punishment was meted out to the Christians (from AD64), a group of individuals given over to a new and harmful set of superstitions.

Since 1980, the rate of incarceration for women has risen more than 700 percent. The majority of these women are imprisoned for nonviolent offenses.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

Locking minors away for decades doesn't solve anything.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

I don't think anybody accepts the idea that somehow I should be punished because I actually served our country during a very difficult time post-9/11. That required me to actually be out of Arkansas for a few years.

I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.

I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself.

Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo

If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

Deci mutatia a avut loc în epoca — mitica sau nu, putin îmi pasa, eu, ca om de stiinta, nu ma las impresionat de cuvinte — a avut loc în epoca imediat urmatoare izgonirii din Paradis. Pedeapsa de care vorbeste capitolul III din cartea Genezei aceasta a fost: amnezia. Corpul omenesc a uitat pur si simplu ca fusese înzestrat cu o functiune capitala: autoregenerarea celulelor...

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.