Quotes About Punishment

By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger.

A túlélÅ'k b?ntudata gyötörte, azért menekült a világegyetem kiismerhetetlen erÅ'inek karmai közé, hogy büntesse magát, amiért még mindig élt.

Now, if there's a Hell–and my actions are predicated in anticipation of this–my version, my eternal punishment includes thirty local eight-year-olds dancing the Tarantella.

I'm not a monster. But I do kill people, have been for more than two decades. Mostly, I'm doing the world a favor. ~Prologue~

mom about the fight, and he'd be grounded or worse. Maybe his mom wouldn't even give him his Christmas

if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all:

If then, merely out of regard to population, it were right that paederasts should be burnt alive, monks ought to be roasted alive over a slow fire. (Offences Against One's Self

The native calls the baobab 'the devil tree' because he claims that the devil, getting tangled in its branches, punished by the tree by reversing it. To the native, the roots are branches now, and the branches are roots. To ensure that there would be no more baobabs, the devil destroyed all the young ones.

One of them replied that they had come to punish Kosinski for The Painted Bird, a book that vilified their country and ridiculed their people.

He glanced at Flat Finn, who was positioned in one corner of the room, facing the wall. "What is Flat Finn doing? If he's urinating on the floor, you're cleaning it up." … "Is he in trouble? He has to stand in the corner and think about what he's done?

In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone.

You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.

School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside scripted behavior becomes an opportunity for law enforcement to come in, criminalizing ordinary things people do every day.

The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Nature's laws know no reward, only punishment. The reward is only that you are in harmony with nature.

There were certain truths one might call self-evident—that a red flashing light meant danger, that punishment had very little to do with crime, that a knock on the door in the middle of the night is always feared within.