Quotes About Punishment

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him

If, someday, we all go to prison for downloading music; I hope they separate us by genres.

White parents use time out. My mom used a different type of time out. She'd be like, 'There...take time out to pick up your teeth.'

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.

He could not deliver the piece because he could not sit as long as I can, and the public divided us because they were talking about how I am stronger. It was terrible for our relationship because his punishment was being unfaithful.

Britain was the last developed country where beating schoolchildren was respectable. This was outlawed last year [1988] - by one vote in Parliament. Parents are now almost the last people left who can hit children without fear of penalty, as long as it's moderate and fitting punishment...the language of authority still derives from violence, mistakenly, tragically.

Por eso las grandes obras de arte se han construido siempre alrededor del pecado. - Lo cual, en el fondo, significa construirlas alrededor de Dios. - Naturalmente, porque sin Dios el pecado no existe. Y se han construido alrededor del pecado, porque el pecado está prohibido y tiene castigo, y eso es lo estético: el conflicto entre la prohibición y la culpa. Mejor dicho, el arte es la chispa que resulta de frotar la prohibición con el castigo.

The tendency is to view God as a cosmic ogre, bound and determined to administer well-deserved punishment; or we envision God as an eternal Mr. Rogers, eager to welcome us all to the neighborhood of the Kingdom.....Jesus however, lived with the dynamic tension of God's wrath and grace; in fact he embodied the paradox.

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

The 2014 study of the National Research Council found that incarceration continued to rise even while the rate of violent crime decreased.

An economic order rooted in a system of production that tolerates and depends upon hierarches of class and race will have to devise systems of control and punishment to deal with social dynamite. This need to control yields the kind of policing, imprisoning, and executing we see today in the political theatrics of state terror, both to move aside those seen as "social junk," and to remove and "neutralize" those seen as "social dynamite.

The death penalty is almost universally a punishment for the poor, for those without the money to get competent counsel. The adage remains true about the death penalty: "Those without the capital get the punishment.

Second, carceral terror, by implanting fear in the incarcerated, often returns persons broken by fear into their communities. I stressed in the first edition of this book that systems of punitive terror create through brutal prison culture a certain number of predators that often return to the streets, increasing the vulnerabilities of poor neighborhoods.