Quotes About Punishment

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.           CONFUCIUS

Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO

manslaughter, not murder.

And even though Glitsky thought the official policy on miscreants in San Francisco was "Three strikes and you're misunderstood

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Revenge? Nah I'm just gonna sit here and let karma fu.. you up.

Being real must be a sin, because I keep getting punished for keeping it real.

But why did the madness come?" "The gods wished to punish him," Chiron answered. Achilles shook his head, impatiently. "But this was a greater punishment for her. It was not fair of them." "There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles," Chiron said. "And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?" "Perhaps," Achilles admitted.

Il semble que punir les femmes soit le passe-temps favori des poètes. Comme s'il ne pouvait pas y avoir d'histoire à moins que nous ne rampions en pleurant.

Sons were not punished.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

El castigo de Dios está más cerca del pecador de lo que están los párpados de los ojos!

Acknowledgment of error is not error. A person who sincerely tells the spirit that he did something wrong cannot be punished anymore. The wrong itself is its own punishment. Power

Political terrorism which results in the death or serious injury of even one Cross always has been and always will be a capital crime. Those found guilty will suffer the death sentence, no two ways about it …

According to another contemporary author, writing in the 970s, the king ordered that thieves and robbers were to be punished by having their eyes put out, their ears ripped off, their nostrils carved open and their hands and feet removed, before being scalped and left in the open fields at night to be eaten by wild beasts and birds.

Man's duty is to persuade and forgive, not to judge and punish. Kindness breeds kindness, and it is pity that wins amendment.

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit

La fuerza separada de la verdad y de la justicia no es digna de alabanza y sólo merece el desprecio y la ignominia, aunque jactanciosa aspire a la gloria y busque el renombre por la infamia: sea por tanto un eterno silencio su castigo.

But no punishment, however sure and severe, was of any avail against the attraction of the fields and woods. It had other uses, developing memory, etc., but in keeping us at home it was of no use at all.

I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them that were in hell some thousands of years before, and yet be still resolved to continue their punishment on them to all eternity.