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Quotes About Punishment

A basic reality awaited those who surrendered and were not shot: the dismal existence of a slave, with all of its pain, indignity, physical punishment and humiliation. For a brief while – though they were hunted – they had had a taste of self-government and freedom. Giving up had to have been indescribably bitter.
~ Unknown
Büyük de?i?meyi Adem babam?z?n i?ledi?i o günaha yormakla yetinen Hristiyanlar? mutlu say?yorlar, k?skan?yorlar onlar?. Onlara göre babalardan çocuklara miras olarak günahlar? de?il, günahlar?n?n cezas? kal?yor. Oysa, as?l çocuklar?n günahlar?n?n cezas?n?, üreme kurallar?na uymayan ve çocuklar?n?n e?itimine önem vermeyen babalar?n çekmesi gerekir.
~ Tommaso Campanella
I'm against the death penalty. I believe that it is a mistake to show that killing people is wrong by killing people. However I'm not against the random killing of people who snore.
~ Unknown
Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea." "It's not hard at all!" Sophia shouted. "And what are you going to do about the Devil, then? He lives in Hell!" For a moment Grandmother considered saying that there was no Devil either, but she didn't want to be mean.
~ Tove Jansson
Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea
~ Tove Jansson
You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea.
~ Tove Jansson
Justice must be swift … and sure … and final.
~ Tracy Hickman
Daniel 12, however, makes it clear that the wicked will ultimately get what they deserve—destruction and shame—while the godly will get what they deserve—honor and life. These themes are much more fully developed in the New Testament and are the basis of Christian hope in the midst of a difficult present.
~ Tremper Longman III
They should just find the dragon who did it and give them a slow, horrible death. Perhaps by making them listen to Starflight talk for the next hundred years.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
So what's the best way to punish a SeaWing?" Vermilion swooped over the crowd, trying to look as if he was perfectly comfortable in the air instead of on the sands where he usually did his announcing. "Chop off his head!" "Stuff grass in his gills!" "Drown him!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
he doesn't deserve to live!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There's no difference between justice and revenge.
~ Unknown
The event caused a certain amount of ribaldry and a fair number of sentences depriving men of their grog for playing the God-damned fool, an offense that came under Article Thirty-six 'All other crimes not capital, committed by any person or persons in the fleet, which are not mentioned in this act, or for which no punishment is hereby directed to be inflicted, shall be punished according to the laws and customs in such cases used at sea,' also known as the captain's cloak or cover-all.
~ Patrick O'Brian
They were poor thin little undernourished creatures with only a few blue teeth among them, though young: they had been taken up for combining with others to ask for higher wages and sentenced to transportation; but as they were somewhat less criminal than those who had actually made the demand they were allowed to join the Navy instead.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Dr Maturin is admirably strict,' said Jack. 'He often desires me to have the men flogged, to overcome their torpor and to open their veins both at the same time. A hundred lashes at the gangway is worth a stone of brimstone and treacle, we always say.
~ Patrick O'Brian
There are people whose whole life is a punishment. Kids who literally don't know the difference between right and wrong, people who 'know not what they do,' to quote the Master.
~ Unknown
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
~ Paul Gallico
was reminded that the South is full of army vets from small towns and humble homes, the military their escape, sometimes their salvation, often their burden, and now and then their punishment.
~ Paul Theroux
I should like to punish myself for having been happy before I met you!
~ Pauline Réage
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
~ Paulo Coelho
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
~ Paulo Coelho
Bad judgement and carelessness are not punishable by rape.
~ Pearl Cleage
As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor tiny spiritual guides sent to newly show you the humanity of girls and women.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Pain is not a punishment, pleasure is not a reward.
~ Pema Chodron