Quotes About Punishment

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments need to fit their crimes.

Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Duval's body, swinging from a gibbet, gave wholesome warning to those he had seduced; and his head was displayed on a pike, from the highest roof of the buildings, food for birds and a lesson to sedition.

A paz exige soluções, mas nunca alcançamos soluções vivas. Apenas trabalhamos para chegar a elas. Uma solução fixa, por definição, é uma solução morta. O problema com a paz é que ela tende a punir os erros em vez de recompensar a lucidez.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

HIGH SCHOOL IS THE PENALTY FOR TRANSGRESSIONS YET TO BE SPECIFIED

Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: Does he know his sentence? No, said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted him: He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him? No, said the officer again, pausing a moment as if to let the explorer elaborate his question, and then said: There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.

In a way, I was already punished before I knew I had done anything wrong.

We're only being punished because you reported us. Otherwise nothing would have happened to us, even if they found out what we did. Can that be called justice?

being alone brings only punishments.

we're only being punished because you reported us. Otherwise nothing would have happened, even if they had found out what we had done. Do you call that justice? Both of us have proved ourselves as guards over a long period of time, especially me - you have to admit we did a good job from the authorities' point of view...

Actually, he said, it's not my job to improve things here, as you put it, and if you said that to someone like the examining magistrate you'd be laughed at or punished. I certainly wouldn't have become involved in these matters of my own free will, and I would never have lost any sleep over the shortcomings of this judicial system. But because I was supposedly placed under arrest - I've been arrested, you see - I've been forced to take action in my own behalf.

The books must be law books and it's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

Theft of a firearm should be punished as a felony, plain and simple.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.