Quotes About Punishment

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

An all-wise Providence permits not sinners to escape thus easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid his own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work his vengeance on the guilty.

When Danglars witnessed Napoleon's return to France, he realized the full effect of the blow he had directed against Dantès: his denunciation had been accurate and, like all men with a certain natural aptitude for crime and only average understanding of ordinary life, he described this strange coincidence as 'a decree of Providence'.

human justice is sadly lacking in consolation; it can only sheed blood in exchange for blood.

Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?" "You

Seventeen months captivity to a sailor accustomed to the boundless ocean, is a worse punishment than human crime ever merited.

He had frequently called for capital punishment on criminals, and owing to his irresistible eloquence they had been condemned, and yet the slightest shadow of remorse had never clouded Villefort's brow, because they were guilty; at least, he believed so; but here was an innocent man whose happiness he had destroyed. In this case he was not the judge, but the executioner.

adiós, bondad, humanidad y gratitud… , adiós, todos los sentimientos que ennoblecen el alma. He querido ocupar el puesto de la Providencia para recompensar a los buenos… , ahora cédame el suyo el Dios de las venganzas para castigar a los malvados.

If a man had tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the man who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

Beaucoup de gens haïs ont été assassinés dans une émeute ; rarement un malheureux, fût-il criminel, a été insulté par les hommes qui assistaient à sa condamnation à mort. Villefort traversa donc la haie des spectateurs, des gardes, des gens du Palais, et s'éloigna, reconnu coupable de son propre aveu, mais protégé pur sa douleur.

The brothers De Witt have been judged by the people, said Gryphus; you call that murdered, do you? well, I call it executed.

Death to the traitors! To the gallows with Cornelius de Witt! Death! death!

Et maintenant, dit l'homme inconnu, adieu bonté, humanité, reconnaissance... adieu à tous les sentiments qui épanouissent le coeur! ... Je me suis substitué à la Providence pour récompenser les bons... que le Dieu vengeur me cède sa place pour punir les méchants! (p. 396)

crimes, but because we know that crimes have

During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had committed a great crime. In Europe, a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life against the agents of power, whilst the people are merely a spectator of the conflict: in America, he is looked upon as an enemy of the human race, and the whole of mankind is against him.

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the existing order, or for the reestablishment of the old order and the punishment of the offenders against it.

werewolves were members of the old Danish families who owned slaves. Their transformation was God's punishment for their wrongdoings. You could spy their teeth and claws at night, even when they were in their human guise, so they often wore gloves and scarves, even in the hottest times of the year.

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.

In every adult who has suffered abuse as a child lies dormant that small child's fear of punishment at the hands of the parents if he or she should dare to rebel against their behavior. But it will lie dormant only as long as that fear remains unconscious. Once consciously experienced, it will dissolve in the course of time.

The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.

It was all he could do. To make her see what she was doing, what she was ending, and to punish her if she did so. Nobody would blame him. There might be finagling, there might be bargaining, there would certainly be humbling of herself, but there it was, like a round cold stone in her gullet, like a cannonball. And it would remain there unless she changed her mind entirely. The children stay

If a ruler suffers subjects to be ill-educated, and then punishes them for crimes they commit in their ignorance, what else can we conclude but that he first makes thieves and then punishes them!

Swearing, drunkenness, "haunting bad houses," fighting, and drawing graffiti—hugh penises were a favourite—on the palace walls were all punishable by warnings