Quotes About Punishment

The gods of power frown on the frivolous; they give ultimate satisfaction only to those who study and reflect, and punish those who skim the surfaces looking for a good time.

Cultures have norms that reflect centuries of shared beliefs and ideals. Do not expect to scoff at such things with impunity. You will be punished somehow, even if just through isolation — a position of real powerlessness.

If the scapegoat appears too weak and his punishment too cruel, you may end up the victim of your own device.

Mother Nature is punishing us, ..., for our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mine shafts into her and drag out her entrails - and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finer. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger? - Pliny, Pg. 176

Elayne, she said softly as they resumed their climb, if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!

You break your neck and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again.

Wishing she could scratch, Morgase also wished that the other woman had not taken her so to heart about the dress not fitting very well. Stuffing the low-necked gown away under the bed, her old nurse had muttered some saying about displaying wares you did not mean to sell, and when Morgase claimed she had just made it up, her reply was At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying .Morgase more than half-suspected that her itchy, ill-draped dress was punishment for that gown.

Honor didn't come from being punished, but accepting a punishment and bearing it restored honor. That was the soul of toh—the willing lowering of oneself in order to recover that which had been lost.

As a novice, she understood things that most Aes Sedai had never learned -- or had forgotten the moment they took the shawl. How to be humble when necessary, how to take a punishment, how to know when you needed to learn rather than pretend you already knew.

Necesitamos un sistema educativo que le enseñe a la gente a aprender de sus errores, en lugar de que los castigue por cometerlos.

Amazingly, prison sentences for murderers have now been lessened in at least two cases because it was argued that the criminal, having the "warrior gene" variant of MAO-A, was inevitably fated to be uncontrollably violent. OMG.

Research shows that rejecting an offer is an emotional decision, triggered by anger at a lousy offer and the desire to punish. The

when the punishment was sufficient. Even as a boy Boone showed the stoicism

Der Mensch ist entweder im Stande, rechtswidrig zu handeln oder er ist es nicht, denn dazwischen gibt es nichts Drittes und Mittleres. Durch diese Fähigkeit wird er strafbar, durch seine Eigenschaft der Strafbarkeit wird er Rechtsperson, und als Rechtsperson hat er teil an der überpersönlichen Wohltat des Rechts.

daß in einem ehedem sehr bekannten psychiatrischen Lehrbuch die Frage: »Was ist Gerechtigkeit?« und die Antwort darauf: »daß der andere bestraft wird!« als ein Fall von Imbezillität angeführt werden, wogegen sie heute die Grundlage einer viel erörterten Rechtsauffassung bilden.

Mortimer had killed Judge Irwin because Judge Irwin had killed him, and I had killed Judge Irwin because Judge Irwin created me, and looking at matters in that light one could say that Mortimer and I were merely the twin instruments of Judge Irwin's protracted and ineluctable destruction. For either killing or creating may be a crime punishable by death, and the death always comes by the criminal's own hand and every man is a suicide. If a man knew how to live he would never die.

But old Mr. Sandeen, who was the father of one of the dead kids, saw him back in the crowd and while the clods were still bouncing off the coffin lids Mr. Sandeen pushed back to him and grabbed him by the hand and lifted up one arm above his head and said, loud, "Oh, God, I am punished for accepting iniquity and voting against an honest man!

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them.

Me regañó: "La razón por la que te castigo no es porque le hayas roto el diente a tu hermana, sino porque huiste.

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

Bir ÅŸey için cezaland?r?ld?ysan, onun için piÅŸman olman gerekmez.

Silas Lee was sent to prison for manslaughter and died there.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

The hammer has fallen.