Quotes About Punishment

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

Only poor men get hanged.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?

No man provokes me with impunity.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He'll Swing!