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Quotes About Punishment

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!
~ Joss Whedon
Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
We know what our punishment is, but what was our sin?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Tu castigo si eres mujer. Que no te amen lo suficiente.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
No noose is good noose'—as the condemned man said on the scaffold.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
papà ci amava. Ci ama. Diceva che, se non ci avesse voluto bene, non ci avrebbe punite. Riesco a capirlo, davvero. Però è un modo di pensare malato, e sbagliato".
~ Joyce Carol Oates
They have to pay. Revenge sounds so… Cahill, Amy said. Not revenge, Dan said. Justice.
~ Jude Watson
Especialmente la medicina era un culto satánico porque lucha contra la enfermedad que era un merecido castigo de Dios, porque al curar el cuerpo se obstaculizaba el camino del alma hacia el cielo.
~ Jules Michelet
Such are they who buy the life of this world at the price of the Hereafter. Their punishment shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be helped.
~ Wahiduddin Khan
Revenge and punishment both imply, "Even if I'd been you, and I'd had your life, I would never have done what you did." And that in turn implies, "I wouldn't have done it, because I'm better than you." But the person who says, "I'm better than you," is taking a serious step in a very dangerous direction. And the person who says, "Even if I'd had your life, I would never have done what you did," is very probably wrong.
~ Wallace Shawn
The theory of karma is the theory of cause and effect, of action and reaction; it is a natural law, which has nothing to do with the idea of justice or reward and punishment.
~ Walpola Rahula
Do not confuse discipline and mercy. When you discipline a person and it is suggested that you show mercy, someone is not thinking biblically. The objective of mercy is withholding justice. The objective of discipline is correction, not justice. Justice is the objective of punishment. Godly behavior is the objective of correction.
~ Walter A. Henrichsen
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Gilmour had to laugh. He's a cop, he thought, for the same reason that I am. He's a cop because, every once in awhile, he got to put a bad guy away. Forever. After
~ Walter Gilmour
Reisenden mit krankhafter Bücherstehlsucht (Biblioklepsie) ist der Zutritt nach Buchhaim untersagt und die sofortige Umkehr angeraten. Bei Zuwiderhandlung und Buchdiebstahl wird nicht nur der Diebstahl, sondern auch die Zuwiderhandlung dieses Verbotes drakonisch bestraft. Kehre um, Biblioklept, solange Du noch kannst.
~ Walter Moers
It's also critical for company leaders to be on the lookout for ways in which questioning gets punished—though the punishment may not be obvious or intentional. The operative question is If an employee asks questions at our company, is he or she asking for trouble
~ Warren Berger
Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
~ Watchman Nee
Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.
~ Wayne's World
We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
~ Wendell Berry
Tenemos tantas ganas de odiar a alguien, de asignarle una culpa e imponerle un castigo, que lo vemos a la peor luz posible, y le imponemos los peores rasgos.
~ Wendy Walker
Haïti est puni pour avoir été la première nation noire qui a aidé et montré à de nombreux pays comment obtenir leur liberté. Au fil des ans, Haïti est puni pour la libération de nombreux esclaves à travers le monde.
~ Werley Nortreus
Haitians are being punished for being the first black nation that helped and Taught many countries how to get their freedom. Through the years, Haiti is being punished for the liberation of many slaves around the world. Unfortunately, that's why they don't want Haiti to prosper.
~ Werley Nortreus
Les Haïtiens sont punis pour être la première nation noire qui a aidé et appris à de nombreux pays comment obtenir leur liberté. Au fil des ans, Haïti est puni pour la libération de nombreux esclaves à travers le monde. Malheureusement, c'est pourquoi ils ne veulent pas qu'Haïti prospère.
~ Werley Nortreus
If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.
~ Wes Craven