Quotes About Punishment

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

And if some people heard "meth addict murders three people" or "mother throws children from bridge" and thought, get rid of them, and then voted for the death penalty? "But that just isn't justice," he said, later emphasizing, "It's a pendulum swing. I still don't quite understand why the United States wants that kind of vengeance, and that's all it is.

Andre had violated the international laws of war He had behaved as a common spy. Death by hanging was the usual punishment.

Punishments were severe, their harshness underscored by the fact that they were written in blood. At the very least, petty thieves were beaten with whips. Those convicted of stealing property...routinely lost an army or a leg. the most serious offenders were tied to a post, where, as it was stipulated, 'his body shall be taken as a target,' with arrows.

Not every dancer receive a noble award Some receive punishment instead.

Sometimes I think that God is punishing me. For what we did together. Sometimes I think that my life is a punishment for wanting. And the wanting is a punishment, too.

A volte penso che la mia vita sia una punizione per la mia inadeguatezza, e che l'inadeguatezza a sua volta sia una punizione. Ma penso: se Dio mi vuole punire, così sia. È un Suo diritto. Ma è mio diritto disobbedire

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Hay ladrones a los que no se castiga, pero que roban lo más preciado: el tiempo.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

God will give him blood to drink!

However, he might not accept that having your face eaten off was suitable punishment for smoking aboard her ship.

Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that's what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve. The more you achieve, the more you're taxed. To make matters worse, under our "progressive" income tax system, the harder you work, the more severe the punishment actually is!

We Americans seem to derive a great deal of pleasure out of punishing those who fail to measure up to our standards of morality and conduct--regardless of whether or not their conduct has any affect on our personal rights to life, liberty, and property.

No longer would other nations, other economies, be taking business and jobs away from the U.S. economy by enacting their own valuable tax reform and simplification measures. As these nations have enjoyed steady gains, we have distracted ourselves with a cacophony of politicians, from both sides of the aisle, yammering about their favorite ideas for using our federal tax code to punish people they don't like while rewarding people and industries they do.

murdered go free.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

hierarchical cultures of business and the state, where status determines access to information, and criticism is met with punishment. Nearly all of us work in hierarchies. Nearly all of us bite our tongues when we should speak freely. Yet few of the classic or modern texts on freedom of speech discuss freedom of speech at work, even though, as the crash of 2008 showed, self-censorship in the workplace can be as great a threat to national security as foreign enemies are.

Like homophobic conservatives, who worry that if societies' taboos go, the promotion of homosexuality will turn young people gay, they worry that if the law allows unpalatable views to escape unpunished, hatred will turn to violence.

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance.