Quotes About Punishment

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work." -Skulduggery

I, uh, I hit a tree." "Well, I'm sure it had it coming.

I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've been thinking about for a long time. What form of punishment is enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you, you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.

I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in.

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

Mr. Madison, who has been called sometimes the father of the Constitution, upon the same question, said: "A union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

She got mad and sent me to bed with one supper instead of the usual three.

Gilda: How severe is the corporal punishment here? Mrs. McCracken: Honey, nobody's going to spank you here. Don't worry.

In Nvengaria we would not dream of doing this. We do not punish a woman for what a man has done, and if he dishonors her and she shoots him, it is regarded as justifiable and she is praised for her bravery.

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

Mr Lincoln suggested that the Lord sent us this terrible war as punishment for the offense of slavery and that the war may be a mighty scourge to rid US of it

God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.

We are not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.

What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?" "He stole the driver's ed car." I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me. "He gave it back." "They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it.

if we can work the story around the idea of punishment and redemption, that could be *very* appealing.

I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.

Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras's atheism held that society must "denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.