Quotes About Punishment

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.

The world was filled with clever killers who mistakenly believed that they'd never be caught. This was not true. Karma had everyone's address

It's an agent of the devil, sent to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should.

Measurement has become such a powerful symbol of justice that it can represent your moral deeds in life as well as your spiritual rewards and punishment. It's perhaps due to this symbolic potency that the Bible mentions measurement more often than it does charity.

The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.

whether I ought not to punish him by dismissing him at once after this reconciliation, or by marrying and teazing him for ever.

That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of the barriers which society gives to virtue.

and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to imagine that their silence was to last through the two dances, and at first was resolved not to break it; till suddenly fancying that it would be the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk, she made some slight observation on the dance.

Without recognizing the belief behind the behavior, some adults react to the behavior with some kind of punishment, such as blaming, shaming, or inflicting physical pain. This kind of response only confirms a student's belief that he or she doesn't belong, creating a vicious cycle that leads to more misbehavior. In this cycle the student's deep need for belonging, contribution, and skills is not being addressed at all.

It is not correct, therefore, to suppose that your actions in this life are caused by a previous existence, or that you are being punished in this life for crimes in a past one. The lives are simultaneous.

I'm seventy-six years old. You think they're gonna send some seventy-six-year-old guy to prison because he flashed his stuff around?" I sincerely hoped so.

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it.

No good deed goes unpunished.

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.