Quotes About Punishment

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

The gods hate unjust men.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Some children [and adults] conclude that a parent's [or partner's] anger is justified. It can be more painful to believe that a parent is uncontrolled, unreasonable, and spiteful than to see yourself at fault. It can be more painful to look on confusion and chaos that to make sense of a parents behavior by concluding that you deserve her punishment.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.

Imagine going to book a flight and the agent politely pauses, looks up at you, and says that you are blacklisted. Your "social credit" score shows that you have been doing some things that don't sit well with the government. You are being punished, and part of the punishment is that you can't travel out of the country to visit relatives in America. You're shocked. You haven't even gotten a traffic ticket before. "There must be some mistake,

There was a time when child molesters would be killed in prison by fellow inmates for their vile acts upon the innocent. If that remains true, I am unaware of it. I realize

Criminal law, in which the state detects the offence, takes the accused to court and demands and imposes punishment, simply did not exist in early medieval society.

a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.