Quotes About Punishment

Fear is actually faith in the wrong god. Fear is the manifestation of believing that something is about to go wrong. And yet, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18).

We give the devil permission to punish us because we think his lies are true. When we are tormented because of lies, we need a revelation of the truth of God so that we can break the steel bars of deception.

punishing people for their mistakes creates self-destructive ecosystems that invite demonic oppression.

Book club meets every other month or so. Besides marriage counseling and the very occasional night out with my sister, I'm home twenty-nine nights out of thirty, and still the girls resent me. Not once have they ever complained about Adam's late meetings—which may or may not have been booty calls for amazing porno sex. Me, I go out to my stupid book club, and I'm punished for it.

Quel povero diavolo è stato derubato di quattro monete d'oro: pigliatelo dunque e mettetelo subito in prigione.

Unlike in 1981, when Reagan had indicated that treatment for addicts was the route he would take, his speeches and policies now became focused on enforcement, criminals, and harsh, no-mercy punishment.

The other story about Midas is that he was called upon to judge between the music of Pan and Apollo and found in favour of Pan. Apollo, understandably annoyed (he was, after all, god of music, whereas Pan was merely god of shepherds and tootled on the odd pipe in his spare time), punished Midas by making a pair of ass's ears sprout from his head.

Any kid what begs for a whippin' can find one.

Why is it that STUPIDITY is not one of the Deadly Sins?

I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behaviour. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee.

But it is true that in its usual forms, consequentialism seems to conflict with some of our deepest intuitions, certainly in new or unfamiliar situations.2 For example, human beings appear to be intuitive retributivists; they want wrongdoers to suffer. With respect to punishment, efforts to encourage people to think in consequentialist terms do not fare at all well.3

Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

The ultimate expression of law is not order - it's prison.

On occasion they were cut down in cold blood or hanged on the spot; in the saying of the Border, which has passed into the language, they had been taken "red-hand", which was "in the deede doinge", and the law was not likely to call a trod-follower to account if his rage got the better of him and he despatched a reiver out of

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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

In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

Harsh justice is still justice.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

all sins may be forgiven, but crimes must still be punished.

I think you go to some hell for that. One o'the bad ones.