Quotes About Punishment

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.

The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty.

Every day, lax sentencing costs lives.

It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.

Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel like they're not being treated with dignity.

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Looking back at all of my defeats, the only real punishment that I've taken in this sport was against Maidana. I got a fractured jaw.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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

Do you even know what death is, Tom?" I say. "It's dumb, and it's loud, and it smells bad; you're in Hell and you want to die to get away from it all, but you're already dead and there's nowhere to go. And what's worse is you know you're there because you deserve it, because you're such a fucking waste of skin and gristle. So no, I don't want to die. It's no fun and there's too many people like you there.

And if he's found guilty?" "Then his fate will be that of all the ignobles.

Ever since Genesis decreed 'thorns and thistles' as a long-term punishment for our misbehaviour in the Garden of Eden, weeds have seemed to transcend value judgements, to be ubiquitous and self-evident, as if, like bacteria, they were a biological, not a cultural, category.

What she was hearing, Caroline knew, was a lifetime of frustration and moral passion, based on a single, diamond-hard belief: that the death penalty was tainted by human failings too profound to cure, and that imposing it was an act of arrogance which diminished our humanity.

I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves." "Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn't the world punish us enough?" "Why wouldn't we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It's cause and effect.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not.

There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe. When a man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil, there is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil that is in man.

On nights when Gloria stayed up late enough to see Rachel come dreamily home she was always unsettled by the girl's appearance: clothes crushed and hair awry, eyes dazed and mouth swollen, with the lipstick eaten away. Love was often said to be torment, but Rachel could make it seem like punishment as well.

Guilt was its own prison.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.