Quotes About Punishment

Every effort made by the child's elders to prepare him for a fate from which they cannot protect him causes him secretly, in terror, to begin to await, without knowing that he is doing so, his mysterious and inexorable punishment. He must be "good" not only in order to please his parents and not only to avoid being punished by them; behind their authority stands another, nameless and impersonal, infinitely harder to please, and bottomlessly cruel.

It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

He was fond of saying that, since to be in prison was simply not to live, the death penalty was the only merciful verdict any jury could deliver.

Every effort made by the child's elders to prepare him for a fate from which they cannot protect him causes him secretly, in terror, to begin to await, without knowing that he is doing so, his mysterious and inexorable punishment. He must be "good" not only in order to please his parents and not only to avoid being punished by them; behind their authority stands another, nameless and

Nor can you get a meal anywhere in the South without being confronted with "grits"; a pale, lumpy, tasteless kind of porridge which the Southerner insists is a delicacy but which I believe they ingest as punishment for their sins.

You live by the lash and you'll die by it.

Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

I think it's unfair to punish players for inherent faults in the game.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

See, locking people up who present no real danger to society isn't just unfair to those people and those who love them. It is, but it's also unfair to the people who pay to keep them there: the taxpayers. Let me be clear: Locking someone up is not free.

When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

I mean, an actor's got to be known for something. Typecasting is an unfortunate kind of reflex punishment for having done a good job. But what's the alternative? To not do a good job?

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances.

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.