Quotes About Punishment

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Con todo, no soy de los que creen que la justicia consista en castigos y en prisiones. Nadie ha demostrado nunca que la cárcel haga mejores a los seres humanos, y quien aspire a la justicia debe saber que la única justicia de verdad efectiva es la que no representa una venganza, que llega después de los hechos para castigar, sino la que previene los males y se esfuerza por impedir que los hechos injustos ocurran.

The Word says: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.

For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petar.

That would hang us, every mother's son.

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.

And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?

They'll give him death by inches.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard...

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

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

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

That day, we were all interned in the "S" barracks (the punishment barracks)—the Frank family, too. We all had our own problems, of course. I found my sister again there, and my parents and my brother, and we didn't pay very much attention to what was going on around us. But still, a family like that, with two children. We knew that they were there, that they had been in hiding. What a shame to have been caught at the last minute.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

Si la cursilería fuera un pecado, yo cada noche me ganaría el infierno.

The law locks up the man or woman/ Who steals the goose from off the common/ But leaves the greater villain loose/ who steals the common from the goose'.

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?