Quotes About Punishment

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.

And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen." Jenny blinked. "I'm no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?

My cat has been Petrified.I want to see some punishment!

Sometimes stupid is crime enough.

Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn't get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.

Yes, " he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

There was nothing particularly extraordinary about the crimes he committed, Barbra thought, except that when he was caught, he was never held accountable, and even that was no big surprise.)

locking the little scamp in the basement.

I've seen cruelty in my life. I was raised on a constant diet of humiliation. If you think a spanking and the threat of more punishment will bring me to my knees in blind submission to you, you abducted the wrong damn girl.

Positive Discipline is built on teaching, understanding, encouraging, and communicating—not on punishing. Punishment is intended to make children "pay" for what they have done. Discipline is designed to help children learn from what they have done.

Punishment may seem to "work" in the short term. But over time, it creates rebellion, resistance, and children who don't believe in their own worth and capability