Quotes About Punishment

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

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

Every murder proves that hanging is not altogether deterrent; every hanging, that it is somewhat deterrent—it deters the person hanged.

there are four kinds of homicide felonious excusable justifiable and praise worthy

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Brower was as courageous a criminal as ever lived to be hanged.

Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)

Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I've earned it. I've deserved it. I've sought it out. Such is my punishment.

But being a bastard was crime and punishment both.

Revenge is a dish best served cold' Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.' Heinrich Heine

When God means to punish a man, the Kantic scriptures say, he sends him stupid friends, and clever enemies.

Most of us tend to be truthful until we are punished for it.

Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? Aren't the judge and the executioner on the same team?

if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street?

But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street?

Com todos nós andando com uma sentença de morte gravada na própria pele, qual a necessidade de se punir? Fomos todos considerados culpados de sermos humanos. Existem crimes piores.

Christians think you got to do good 'cause you want to go to heaven, but if you do good 'cause you want to do good and don't believe in that shit, then they figure it's the slow oven for you anyway. They like a god that's a bully, makes you want to do good 'cause he's gonna rough you up.

I guess. You think he'll get life, or a needle full of shit?" "I pray for the needle. I'd like to be there to push the plunger in the fucker, or maybe just forget the dope and jab him to death with the needle." "The thing that worries me about you, Leonard, is you have such a hard time getting in touch with your true feelings.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

How could a society hang a man for stealing honey?" we ask from our perspective; "Why does a man repeatedly risk hanging to steal some honey?" wonders Frantz.