Quotes About Punishment

always thought killers should be locked away in tiny cells with nothing to do but think about their crimes until they die.

What use is a god with boundless mercy, sir? You mock me as a pagan, yet the gods of my ancestors pronounce clearly their ways and punish severely when we break their laws. Your Christian god of mercy gives men licence to pursue their greed, their lust for land and blood, knowing a few prayers and a little penance will bring forgiveness and blessing.

What kind of god is it, sir, wishes wrong to go forgotten and unpunished?

What kind of god is it, sir, wishes wrongs to go forgotten and unpunished?

You ever get into that shit again? Lotta trees behind Stonehaven. I'll string you up from one." "And let the crows peck at my corpse?" "Nah. Doesn't hurt if you're already dead.

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offence; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus.

The small boys came early to the hanging.

He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offense; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus. That's what the Pharisees were like, Philip thought; no wonder the Lord preferred to eat with publicans and sinners.

And so, Aldred thought, great ones sin with impunity while lesser men are brutally chastised.

The world has become wicked. Heresy, lasciviousness, and disrespect are rife. Men question authority, women flaunt their bodies, children disobey their parents. God is angry, and His rage is fearsome. Don't try to run from His justice! It will find you, no matter where you hide.

We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

Every man who ever robbed or raped or murdered had a mother, and many had wives who loved them and children who needed them. But they killed other women's husbands, and sold other men's children into slavery, and took other people's life savings to spend in alehouses and brothels. They must be punished.

Archdeacon Peter's face was like stone. He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offense; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus.

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El delito es la ruptura de una regla social importante. Los animales solitarios no tienen reglas. Un oso invadirá la cueva de otro oso, robará su alimento y matará a sus oseznos. Los lobos no hacen esas cosas; si las hicieran, no vivirían en manadas. Los lobos son monógamos, unos cuidan los cachorros de los otros y respetan el espacio particular ajeno. Si un individuo quebranta las reglas, lo castigan; si reincide, lo expulsan de la manada o lo condenan a muerte.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.