Quotes About Punishment

For there's a lot of masochism in the acting profession. We're willing to take a lot of punishment, but the minute we hit a little bit of success we are liable to run from it. We're frightened of it and develop all kinds of phobias as a consequence. Outsiders who don't understand think we have a chip on our shoulder, but it's not that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster--punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon about her own beauty. Perseus, flying by, fell in love with Andromeda and saved her. In the sky, she's pictured with her arms outstretched and her hands chained.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal. They're not mutually exclusive.

You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?

And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will for ever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

lo que Él hizo en obediencia a la ley de su Padre, y al someterse al castigo de ella, no fue para sí mismo sino para aquel que lo acepta para su salvación, y es agradecido.

Without hope, the need to punish is the one true religion. Blame must be fixed on some soul other than one's own.

but the insanity of punishing someone physically for getting an answer wrong. It is terrifying how much of this deeply unkind, utterly pointless, in fact, mind-bogglingly COUNTERPRODUCTIVE kind of behaviour was meted out to children over the centuries by half-witted, power-crazed zombies like this heinous old bat—a large proportion of such psychopaths allegedly acting in the name of an all-loving God

There is no forgiveness in nature.

So they shall acknowledge their sins, but far will be (forgiveness) from the inmates of the burning fire.

The punishment of vertical rending was given to those who had destroyed marriages to satisfy their own lust.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

He that slays shall be slain.

Punishment awaits all offenses.

Every sin carries its own punishment.

Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.