Quotes About Punishment

Just like you can't punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can't love anyone without loving yourself.

You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing.

Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

Hell is full of high court judges.

The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis...

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

Vice is its own curse. If we let nature alone, she cures vice by the most frightful penalties.

The grave was never intended to be a sanctuary to defend sinners from the hand of justice, but a close prison to secure them against the day of trial, that they may be forthcoming.

God met with Michal also, for despising her husband, merely upon a religious ac count, because he showed a holy zeal for God, which her proud spirit, as many others since have done, thought it too mean and base to do. Well, what is her punishment? 'Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child unto the day of her death.' The service of God was too low for a king in her thoughts, therefore shall none come out of her womb to sit on the throne or wear a crown.