Quotes About Punishment

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they prey. It makes life safer for the law-abiding and on the whole prisons are pretty good at containing those who have been committed to them.

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

I did probation for three years.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

If you ask me, I think it should be an eye for an eye. On everything.

The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.

A law has to have teeth.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for doing right. The dog did something you wanted, you reinforced the behavior with a reward - pet'm, tell'm they're a good dog, let'm play with a toy. The standard reward for a K-9 working dog was a hard plastic ball with a hole drilled through it where Leland liked to smear a little peanut butter.

As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats.

maybe the rest of your life—unless you get the death penalty." Taggart

God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.

God's program is grace, not scorekeeping; free gift, not reward and punishment in this world.

An eye for an eye" won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever.

Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell? Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.