Quotes About Punishment

The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.

We, the people of Thiaoouba, are assigned to assist, guide and sometimes punish the inhabitants of planets under our guardianship.

Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

No more hanky-panky or you get more evil.

The abandonment by his biological mother, his lost sister, the punishment he received from his adoptive mother and the fact that his two wives apparently refused him sex, correlated with Wilken's first selection of victims, namely the prostitutes.

rather not give a serial killer a second chance in life, for he might be giving someone else a first chance of losing his life.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Remember that only stupidity is punished. Not lechery, nor greed, nor betrayal, nor apostasy, but stupidity alone. And truth is the worst stupidity, for only the feeble-minded thinks he has found truth.

The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.

Mindless punishment and super-incarceration have been societal disasters: locking away tens of thousands of young people in hyper-violent prisons, dominated by institutionalized race wars, without any semblance of education, rehabilitation or hope. The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.

And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhaps Jeffry Dahmer was a "food offender.")

I began to think a joke was not truly good unless someone got hit for telling it.

Love for God, he'd thought, should come naturally and not out of fear of punishment.

Needless to say, it is a perpetual loop of economic gender cruelty to require women to pay for their physical upkeep and then to punish them financially for not keeping up when they don't have the funds.

even though deep down I know that if there is an afterlife, she's a pretty much open-and-shut case for hell.

Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against.

If you avert your face from violence, who then shall punish wrong doing ?

Let the eyes see, let the heart take notice. Be not harsh in your power, lest trouble befall you. Pass over a matter, it becomes two. He who eats tastes; one addressed answers. It is the sleeper who sees the dream; and a judge who deserves punishment is a model for the (evil) doer.

Truly, he who is yonder will be a living god, Punishing the evildoer's crime.

He will find no favor on the day of woe.

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy

Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.