Quotes About Punishment

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don't punish me for saying it. I think you know you're cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don't want to run errands for someone cruel.

Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.

I heard there's fire in hell, but I'll bet the devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain't gonna clean itself.

One misfortune may be chance; two might be divine punishment. Three is a plan.

Whatever you do, good or bad, sorry or not, you get punished, darling. Life kicks you in the balls.

Rehab had been cursed indeed. There was no way Mohamed could have raised the money to buy his secret stash of gold without scrimping on his family. I imagined the lies he'd told, as he denied her every little luxury. Four years of privation: the punishment for having only a daughter.

Il peccato, inventato dagli uomini per meritare la pena di vivere, per non essere castigati senza perché.

Amar aos homens como castigo Como os homens são, quase todos, desprezíveis e repugnantes - tudo menos dignos de amor -, amá-los por determinação (e só por temor a Deus os podemos amar) constitui uma pena, um suplício, uma penitência.

A sabotagem é uma explicação muito mais convincente do que a ineficácia, Vadia. Quando é descoberto, o culpado pode ser punido. Faz-se justiça, alguém pagou e a ordem é restabelecida. É esse o ponto fundamental. O

On this great plan, or Constitution the safety and happiness of the United States does, under Almighty God, mainly depend: all our laws are made by its direction or authority; whoever goes contrary to it injures and betrays his country, injures you, injures me, betrays us all, and is deserving of the heaviest punishment.

punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.

In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.

Io non credo alle fiamme e allo zolfo dell'inferno; ma in momenti come questo rimpiango la mia miscredenza. No, in momenti come questo io quasi ci credo. Deve esistere per forza un inferno, perché in nessun altro posto voi potrete ricevere una punizione adeguata ai vostri crimini. Fino a quando esisterà gente come voi, l'inferno sarà un'esigenza essenziale del cosmo.

herkes suçlu olunca kimse cezaland?r?lamazd?.

nights on the street. It seems that not only the man who becomes old is punished for his involuntary misfortune, but likewise the man who is struck by disease or accident.

Guyuk imposed on her a punishment of unique cruelty and symbolism. He ordered that all the orifices of her upper and lower body be sewn shut, thereby not permitting any of the essences of her soul to escape from her body, and that she be rolled up inside a felt blanket and drowned in the river. And thus ended the life of Fatima, his mother's adviser, and one of the most powerful women of the thirteenth century.

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

To give an example of the Sufi approach to teachings, a conservative Islamic theologian might say that a Muslim who does not perform the five cycles of daily prayers will suffer punishment in the hereafter. A Sufi teacher, on the other hand, will liken prayers to attendance at celestial banquets. A practitioner who fails to pray is missing out on the joy of the feast. That loss is the punishment.

Every time I refused to believe in and act on the American Dream, I was punished severely. Because everyone else has invested so much of their money and lives in this dream that it freaks them out when other people deviate—let alone take a detour, or be happier.

But it was not the room's disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.