Quotes About Punishment

Talvez compreender apenas quando as coisas já não têm remédio seja o castigo justo para os que não tiveram coração.

My name is Bis," he said, "and I was kicked off the basilica because I was spitting on the people coming in. Suck-up little Glissando thinks she knows angel dust from dirt and tattled on me.

Most people," he said, "are desperate to be needed. And if they don't feel good about themselves or think they're undeserving of love, some will fasten upon the worst possible way to satisfy that need to punish themselves. They're the addicts, the shadows both claimed and unclaimed, passed like the fawning sheep they make themselves into as they search for a glimmer of worth, knowing it's false even as they beg for it.

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The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. How artfully she beckons, how perfectly she punishes....

You've been a bad little mortal.

The man's face grew unrecognizable, shapeless, and still Jackson beat him. I wasn't witnessing a fight, or a rescue. I was beholding punishment. A sentence... I realized he was seeing a maze of present and future, a web of occurrences visible only to him. As if he were fate itself. . . .

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

What sort of a god are you, my Lord? Your punishments seem barbaric to me. Either that or we are more god-like and you're merely human-like.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.