Quotes About Punishment

It is in the very nature of things that torments inflicted have no tendency to bring a wicked man to repentance. Then why torment him if it will not do him good? It is simply unadulterated revenge. All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart.

The doctrines of total depravity and endless punishment were born of bad cooking and dyspepsia.

But I had learned a lesson about the overwhelming need of narcissists to be in the right, and to punish those by whom they feel slighted.

As the eighteenth century went on, fewer people were actually hanged for capital crimes that they had been convicted of.

The execution did not go as smoothly as expected due to clogging of the IV tube administering the lethal chemicals into Gacy's arm. After a delay of 18 minutes, Gacy was pronounced dead at 12:58 a.m. on May 10, 1994.   His final words were reported to be, "Kiss my ass.

Swift-Killer had never hurt so. Her last thought was that Bright had decided to punish her for having the temerity to attempt to talk to God. The automatic protective mechanisms in her body, activated by the lack of body reserves and the shock from the topside burns, suddenly took over. The animal reflexes were turned off, and for the first time in untold generations, a cheela went to sleep.

The gods always bring down those mortals who get too arrogant, demanding, or inflated

Almighty God has promised judgment and threatened eternal punishment for all Christ-rejecters. To break His word would be sin and God cannot sin.

The laws prohibiting suicide and providing punishment for any attempt at self-destruction have been repealed. The Government has seen fit to acknowledge the right of man to end an existence which may have become intolerable to him, through physical suffering or mental despair.

Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do I have reckless instincts? Everything is possible, everything, even the most sordid and undignified things.

The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation

The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?

It is not a question of crime and punishment -- it is problem and solution.

Para deixar bem clara a questão, alguns exemplares foram embebidos em alcatrão e cobertos de penas, antes de serem afixados em pelourinhos.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

The Devil's favorite part of hell.

Stupidity isn't a capital crime. And there's no death penalty here, anyway. There is now.

He went in, to a reception desk that could have been in a hip museum or at an upscale dentist's. Behind it was a guy who looked like he was stationed there as a punishment. Reacher said hello. The guy looked up but didn't answer. Reacher told him he wanted to see two sets of old census records.

In the Old Testament, guilt enters the world by way of a bite from a fruit.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.