Quotes About Punishment

and then my uncle killed him anyway just to teach him a lesson.

it must have been the case that there had been an angel among the hostages, that he'd struck down the leader as punishment for shooting the farmer, and then vanished, probably flown back to heaven." "No doubt." "Or to Calvi's.

Why doesn't she call the cops and get me shipped off to children's prison, if this is how incorrigible I really am? "Alexander Portnoy, aged five, you are hereby sentenced to hang by your neck until you are dead for refusing to say you are sorry to your mother." You'd think the child lapping up their milk and taking baths with his duck and his boats in their tub was the most wanted criminal in America.

He told me he wants to write this book arguing that Christianity is the universe's way of punishing itself, that what Christianity is, really, is the offer of an irresistible reward in exchange for an unperformable service.

it was his idea to call having a body Corporeal Punishment)

Throughout the 1680s, Plymouth ordered Wampanoags "out of the country" for crimes like theft, assault, and rape to which colonists would normally receive corporal punishment and fines.

He was sentenced to one year in a small juvenile detention home in town. Most of the kids were in for drugs. Carmack was in for an Apple II.

While he was pilloried for enforcing a severe regime of punishment to force them to look for jobs, he was trying behind the scenes to persuade the government to take another course entirely. He wanted tax breaks for those on welfare to encourage them to take work. This was his one big idea in the portfolio and he has cited it since as evidence that somewhere inside the Liberal Party the DLP was alive and well. But not very alive: the plan was killed off by Howard.

The rules were just different back then, especially in regard to corporal punishment. Not only could you hit your own children, but you could also hit other people's.

I said that Santa no longer traffics in coal. Instead, if you're bad he comes to your house and steals things.

That," the chief counselor said, "is what happens to people who play around." If this was the punishment for a boy and a girl, I felt certain the penalty for two boys somehow involved barbed wire, a team of donkeys, and the nearest volcano.

mercy and justice are deadlier than any rifle or bayonet.

Nothing else in this world can damn and destroy souls as effectively as our need to inflict vengeance and call it justice.

The point is that everything great and small happens by Divine Providence, and that even these small afflictions are sent from God as punishment, to get our attention, and that they too can make atonement for us.

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

But I doubt very much that Sheba's comic oddity will actually earn her more lenience from the court. In all likelihood, she'll receive exactly the same punishment as a man. The guardians of gender equality won't stand for anything else. In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.

Not every skunk in the world rates a first-class killing. Hanging is too good for some folks. They just need their behinds kicked.

You have less pity than the executioner

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

The words with which a breakdown is treated are all medicalised - illness, treatment, nurse, doctor, meds - but the mechanism of treatment belongs to retribution: incarnation, surveillance, behaviour monitoring, parole. For crimes against normality, we get a label and a chemical life sentence. I hate this mechanism. I refuse to believe in it.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Strongest of Oak is the gallows Tighest of knots is the noose Why oh why did I kill that man Now I'll never get loose

If we see all of these evils as only the result of God's punitive purpose, then we develop a tragically distorted view of God. God is then seen as a kind of divine policeman, eternally hiding at the roadside to catch us exceeding the speed limit of life.

On the qualities required of naval officers, Roosevelt was outspoken: "They must have skill in handling the ships, skill in tactics, skill in strategy . . . the dogged ability to bear punishment, the power and desire to inflict it, the daring, the resolution, the willingness to take risks and incur responsibilities which have been possessed by the great captains of all ages, and without which no man can ever hope to stand in the front rank of fighting men.