Quotes About Punishment

Crime does not decrease in proportion to the severest punishment.

I'm quite hardcore on this. I think every psychic and medium in this country belongs in prison. Even the ones demented enough to believe in what they're doing. In fact, especially them. Give them windowless cells and make them crap in buckets.

He needed to find someone that needed killing.

Capital punishment — the income tax.

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.

I feel like I'm 16 again — gas is cheap and I'm grounded.

Drive hammered, get slammered.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

WOLLNER: I killed them because they were evil people. BAUSEN: Evil? WOLLNER: Evil people. BAUSEN: Was that the only reason? WOLLNER: It's reason enough.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other; on the contrary, they breed and reinforce each other. Punishment does not deter misconduct. It makes the offender more skillful in escaping detection. When children are punished they resolve to be more careful, not more obedient or responsible. Parents

a slap and a night's disgrace. But when he sneaked into the kitchen and stole a hamburger patty from the table he got a trouncing. He

An arm for an arm!

an eye for an eye

The degree to which a society is civilized can be judged by entering its prisons.

Nature is my God. I don't believe in the hereafter. This world is where we get all our punishment.

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could have been.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

At finding ourselves, and without having committed any crime, thus introduced into one of the legal fortresses of a country celebrated throughout the world for the freedom, equality, and magnanimity of its laws, I could not help reflecting on the strange ideas of right and justice that seemed to have usurped a place in public opinion, since the mere accident of birth, and what persons were the lease capable of changing or modifying was made a reason for punishing and imprisoning them.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I am utterly alone with myself, I see clearly that from now on I shall always be utterly alone with myself. I am somewhere where neither love nor friendship can reach, I am in hell … I have sinned for a brief while and I am being punished for it, incredibly severely, for a long time! But one should have known, before one sinned, how severe the punishment would be. One should have been warned beforehand, then one would not have sinned …