Quotes About Punishment

him lazy and stupid, they lashed his knuckles

Ah, well...hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.

It's not a punishment. It's the place where mercy and justice meet.

She refers to her inability to find true love as if it were a congenital weakness or fair punishment for some feminist principle that she mistakenly espoused in late adolescence and cannot now abandon honorably.

The English criminal code, later known as the "Bloody Code," was brutal in the late 18th century. By the time the first legal reforms were enacted in 1826, 220 crimes—many of them relatively petty crimes against property as Dickens describes in the rest of the paragraph—were punishable by death.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

What about my family?" I say. "Will they punish them?

notice the lines that have formed between Peeta's eyebrows. He has guessed or he has been told. But the Capitol has not killed or even punished him.

Las reglas de los Juegos del Hambre son sencillas: en castigo por la rebelión, cada uno de los doce distritos debe entregar a un chico y una chica, llamados tributos, para que participen. Los veinticuatro tributos se encierran en una enorme arena al aire libre en la que puede haber cualquier cosa, desde un desierto abrasador hasta un páramo helado. Una vez dentro, los competidores tienen que luchar a muerte durante un periodo de varias semanas; el que quede vivo, gana.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief.

I am not sorry for my crime.

I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.

Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

A criminal always returns home.

ETERNITY is a long time. FIRE is a terrible thing. The thought of eternal punishment, with fire, not only causes man to fear death, it often causes him to lose his reason. It destroys interest in life and makes happiness impossible.

The wages of sin is death!

Modernity's double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.

But bankers used to be subjected to Hammurabi's rule. The tradition in Catalonia was to behead bankers in front of their own banks

Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

provérbio de Sêneca no Tratado sobre a clemência a respeito do efeito reverso das punições. Ele escreveu: "O castigo repetido, enquanto esmaga o ódio de alguns, incita o ódio de todos […] assim como as árvores que foram podadas fazem brotar novamente incontáveis galhos". Pois