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Quotes About Punishment

Krew na twoich r?kach, Falka, krew na twej sukience P?o?, p?o?, Falka, za twe zbrodnie Sp?o? i skonaj w m?ce!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
O bem e o justo devem triunfar, o mal, recebeu um castigo exemplar e o amor, unir os amantes até a morte.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis, 9:6 Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Our tendency is to try something a few times, and if it works, it gets reinforced, and we continue to do it; if it doesn't work, we abandon it. In psychology this is called the law of effects—we tend to keep doing things we are rewarded for doing. The opposite, however, is also true: we tend to avoid what punishes us or gives us pain.
~ Andy Andrews
Virtue is its own punishment.
~ Aneurin Bevan
You do not deserve this' he said. 'Who can say what I deserve or no?' I said. 'I've done nothing; but that may be sufficient reason for condemning me
~ Angela Carter
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
~ Angela Davis
YHVH Makah, the one who smites and punishes sin.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Maxie knew he must have been very bad to deserve this. He wondered what it was he had done. And why he hadn't enjoyed it more at the time
~ Angie Sage
I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'
~ Freddie Prinze
I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.
~ Ian Brown
When I was a kid, brown rice felt like punishment. Like the ever-increasing amount of whole wheat flour that would appear in my mom's pancakes and waffles, brown rice with dinner felt like we had done something really wrong.
~ Chris Morocco
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
That's the only way you can stop a guy like Cam Newton. Hit him. He's unstoppable, so whenever he does try to run like a running back, you got to punish him.
~ Chris Harris, Jr.
I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.
~ Trey Gowdy
No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?
~ Cesare Beccaria
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
~ Thomas More
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Schools should bring back the whip.
~ Roddy Llewellyn
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
~ Thomas Brooks
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
~ Montesquieu
We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct.
~ John Shadegg
Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan