Quotes About Punishment

The Dantean conceptions of Inferno were childish and unworthy of the divine imagination: fire and torture. Boredom is much more subtle. The inner torture of a mind unable to escape itself in any way, condemned to fester in its own exuding mental pus for all time, is much more fitting.

En los mitos griegos, estaba el titán, o Prometeo, que suministró el fuego (y por consiguiente tecnología) a los seres humanos y por ello fue terriblemente castigado por el enfurecido Zeus, que era el dios jefe.

She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering in the hold of the ship, losing her baby, and facing a future of total uncertainty.

Te parece correcto? Dios apuesta con Satanás, castiga al pobre hombre sin piedad y además pretende que lo adore. Es un dios cruel, injusto y frívolo. Un patrón que se comporta así con sus siervos no merece lealtad ni respeto, mucho menos adoración.

por eso salían a cazar a los desertores con lazo y enseguida los azotaban para enseñarles su doctrina de amor y perdón.

Un matón a sueldo es lo mismo que una confesión de culpa.

Superego is not the same as consciousness; the former punishes us and the latter guides us.

Superego is not the same as consciousness; the former punishes us and the latter guides us. I stopped listening to the overseer inside me who demands compliance and performance with the voice of my grandfather. The race uphill is over; now I stroll calmly in the land of intuition, which has turned out to be the best environment for writing.

cayó la ceniza como coronación del castigo

I couldn't believe that talk about Jon Jones fighting Lesnar - that would have zero legitimacy. In society, we punish people that do bad things. Why isn't it the same in fighting?

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.