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Quotes About Punishment

En cierta manera, esto era su desastre, su desdicha. Era su castigo el ver hundirse y desaparecer aquí a un hombre, allá a una mujer, en esa profunda oscuridad, mientras ella estaba obligada a permanecer aquí con su vestido de noche.
~ Virginia Woolf
In an Anglo-Saxon thriller, the villain is generally punished, and the strong silent man generally wins the weak babbling girl, but there is no governmental law in Western countries to ban a story that does not comply with a fond tradition, so that we always hope that the wicked but romantic fellow will escape scot-free and the good but dull chap will be finally snubbed by the moody heroine.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
But the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not Punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
~ W E B Du Bois
I've got a mind to turn you over my knee and spank the spoiled hell out of you
~ Larissa Ione
She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had tortured animals and were sent to Sheoul-gra got to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts. She'd always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing.
~ Larissa Ione
rescuing and vindicating, giving commandments, judging and punishing, and most importantly God's acts in Jesus, sending him forth, handing him over to redemptive death, and raising him and exalting him to superlative glory. So theologizing about "God" in the NT is essentially making inferences based on God's acts.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
Haz caso al diablo y te recompensará con el infierno
~ Laura Gallego García
Le han dictado pena máxima: sesenta años. Suena infinito y sin embargo es poco, no hay vida que alcance para pagar lo que hizo.
~ Laura Restrepo
Why does the world demand girls to be beautiful, but when they are, punish them for it? Why does it punish girls either way? Why does the world want girls to be sorry, some even more than others? Sorry, sorrier, sorriest.
~ Laura Ruby
Girls were punished so hard for their love, so hard, hard enough to break them.
~ Laura Ruby
The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.
~ Laura Wiess
Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
your ass is grass...
~ Lauren Myracle
Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn't like you.
~ Lauren Tarshis
The two condemned men kneeled at the water's edge, crying and pleading for mercy as the ships grew smaller and finally vanished over the horizon.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Manuel punished those responsible, but the legacy of bitterness lingered, and many Jews left the country for the Netherlands.
~ Laurence Bergreen
sentenced the other accused—in all, forty men—to death.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The Captain General subjected the two conspirators to a fresh court-martial.
~ Laurence Bergreen
punishment of Ferdinand Magellan's crime of moving to Castile.
~ Laurence Bergreen
and we have known someone who had ten women; they are jealous of them, and if it happens that one of these women is unfaithful, he punishes her and beats her.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Thomas Appletree, who had fired the shot, was condemned to death by hanging
~ Laurence Bergreen
He [Crowley] realized that humanity is being asked to pray to some sky deity to be forgiven for expressing the needs of the very bodies which this deity supposedly created for humanity. In short, creation is being punished for having the very qualities it was created to have.
~ Laurence Galian
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
~ Cesare Beccaria
The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.
~ Cesare Beccaria