Quotes About Punishment

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.