Quotes About Punishment

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind...

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.

Nor was there much mercy toward Julia: Augustus sent her into exile;

judiciary, it was simply not equipped to execute large numbers of its citizens. The task had to be privatized.

As Leo had said to me, none of us knew what our crime was, but reading the book was certainly a punishment. The

My son is dead. My other son has been crippled. And she just gets a slap on the wrist. That can't be right.' A spokesperson for Brake, the road safety charity, said: 'Nobody should drive if they are not fully in control of their car.

New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty.

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them.

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour - there has to be a penalty for failure; otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and homeowners is forgotten.

For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.