Quotes About Punishment

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.