Quotes About Punishment

The more we tolerate crime, the more crime we will have.

Our culture seems incapable of connecting cause and effect when the two events do not occur within easy recall of each other. The parents of these young adults have failed them totally, yet we as a culture refuse to connect cause and effect because we have no stomach for punishing the innocent-appearing parents.

Until the truth about the apartment bombings is known, the true nature of Russia's postcommunist history cannot be established. At the same time, failing to react to the evidence that the bombings were a government-planned mass crime leaves such provocation as a standing temptation for government leaders. If those responsible are not identified and punished, it will be assumed by those fighting for power in Russia that provocations are a legitimate way to win elections.

You MUST take your pills. If you fail to take your pills, every single person in your dormitory will be PUNISHED for all ETERNITY

will then dispose of the chocolate by eating it. Anyone who refuses to hand over their chocolate to me will not be EXPELLED. They will be held upside down by their ankles and dangled out of the window until they hand over their chocolate. After I have eaten their chocolate, then, and only then, will they be EXPELLED.

you got your just desserts

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid]

Repentance is the grace that Yahweh has granted first to His people otherwise punishment will follow.

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.

wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment.

True education will shape your life, but if you ignore education you will be punished by your life.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

I believe that forgiveness given prematurely is its own form of punishment. When the hand is offered before the heart says it's time, judgment lurks behind every smile.

Sin is against God, and it isn't possible to be neutral about God, Who has been offended by sin. Nonjudgmental attitudes actually condone and encourage sin. To accept a sinner as he is, means to say God was wrong in sending Christ to die for sinners in order to change them. God took sin so seriously that He punished His own Son with death for sin. If God punishes sin, we may not accept sinners as they are.

If you were a murderer, rapist or felon, it was the room where you were interrogated.

Just punishment, which observes restraints, is different from revenge, which knows no limits.

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

They did not say it was a punishment on womankind. This was because men were the rulers and women had to suffer for their sins.)