Quotes About Punishment

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.

There are three things. Either somebody invested Rs 5 crore or somebody loaned this much money. The third thing is that Rajpal Yadav was involved in a fraud. Only one of these three things can be right. Please let me know which of these I am getting punished for.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?

Capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for rape.

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.

No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.