Quotes About Punishment

I have theories. Notice the patterns of deference as they approach their seats. Viceroy Merrill assists Sally to climb the stairs. Titles are omitted by some and always used by others, and given redundantly in full over the loudspeakers. The 'gentlemen of the press' would seem to have no status at all, yet they stop whom they please, and although the others will prevent them from going where they will, they are not punished for trying.

El Poder Judicial siempre busca encontrar alguien que pague el delito cometido, pero no le interesa detener al que en verdad lo cometió.

Then Father said: "If the teacher has to thrash you again, Royal, I'll give you a thrashing you'll remember.

If they cheat, can I shoot them?

stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

For one pleasant second I almost let the zombie do him in. Exploiting the dead is one thing I feel strongly about, but . . . stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. I

What if away from the bad guy, she's not a bad guy? Oh, hell, I don't know. The only thing I know for certain is that it isn't my job to worry about how the poor bastard turned into a killer. It's my job to make sure they never kill anyone else again. That's what I do. I am the executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see. Once.

Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.

My performance as Major Breakthrough (whose comrades in arms include Private Bath, Corporal Punishment and General Nuisance) had improved somewhat.

La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y sólo allí encuentra satisfacción.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ERNEST:

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

John Newton had written that he was relieved to have left the trade because "I considered myself as a sort of gaoler or turnkey . . . perpetually conversant with chains, bolts, and shackles." But to leave behind a career as a prison guard is one thing; to call for closing all prisons entirely another.