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Quotes About Punishment

Deseo que de esta oscuridad broten manadas de perros rabiosos, víboras, escorpiones, enormes serpientes marinas. Deseo que mientras estoy aquí sentada, a la orilla del mar, de la noche lleguen asesinos que desgarren mi cuerpo. Sí, sí, que se me castigue por mi inutilidad, que me ocurra lo peor, algo tan devastador que me impida enfrentarme a esta noche, a mañana, a las horas y a los días que vendrán para confirmarme mi constitución inadecuada.
~ Elena Ferrante
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~ Eli Khamarov
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment
~ Elie Wiesel
It wasn't that I hadn't known these things, but that at some point, without realizing it, I had persuaded myself that I was different—that my honesty and non-lameness wouldn't be punished like that, because I had some special skill, some self-sufficiency, an ability to be alone. I always had been alone, when every other person in my family had insisted on having someone around to have sex with.
~ Elif Batuman
It was, after all, Voltaire who was reputed to be the source of the famous quip that if God had not existed it would have been necessary to invent him, if only because, so long as his wife, his tailor, his lawyer, and his servants could be persuaded to believe in the threat of punishment in an afterlife, "I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often."49
~ Anthony Pagden
You have to bear in mind the punishment. If an inmate ran away they would kill fifty other inmates. How can you accept that responsibility?
~ Anthony S. Pitch
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?
~ Anton Chekhov
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A life is a game in which anyone can make loads of money by doing things without guilt & shame, but a person can make own name only by being different and that means often punishment from the people.
~ Anuj Somany
A person upon awakening will not be able to believe own eyes as how the lies have invaded & pervaded all people's lives to make the wicked to easily rise position-wise and so the nice is being getting punishment rather than prize , but the biggest surprise is that hardly anyone wishes to realize the facts.
~ Anuj Somany
An irony of whole life story is that a person who says or does honestly good for others is not so much punished by his adversary as much by the people who are actually beneficiary of his efforts' results.
~ Anuj Somany
An unfortunate thing in a private organisation is that a person is not punished so much for committing mistakes intentionally as much for correcting own errors that was done inadvertently.
~ Anuj Somany
Being intelligent in a private organization full of sycophant people as indolent only is not a prize but punishment merely to that person.
~ Anuj Somany
History has examples that invisible God sends beautiful woman to wicked or evil man to make her as his close companion to eventually punish him only
~ Anuj Somany
Merely lifting the unlawful ban and allowing all unvaccinated men to visit public spaces & board on train,bus or tram is not justice, unless and until those implemented this unwarranted travelling rule & atrocious going clause and caused pain to poor people & commuters are punished under laws
~ Anuj Somany
Removing all dramatic pandemic restrictions or even offering compensation is not justice because without giving severe punishment to those who made testing, mask & vaccination mandatory, it is like allowing culprit and corrupt to carry on their evil practice to create fear and fool the ordinary population
~ Anuj Somany
The majority of people have got the government as they deserve for their depravity; but sadly it is not they but others in extreme minority who are safeguarding somewhat humanity in life get often the maximum punishment.
~ Anuj Somany
The prize to a wise man from an invisible God is his regular seclusion & safe, long distance from woman; whereas the punishment to the wicked person from omnipresent Lord is a horde of people especially women around him often.
~ Anuj Somany
The punishment from omnipresent God to the problematic person is only a lot of treacherous people especially pretty women around him often with all pretending themselves to be his close companion.
~ Anuj Somany
The sycophants get regularly the increment and promotion whereas the talent gets usually the penalty and punishment in the private organization especially in Large or Medium Corporation.
~ Anuj Somany
There is an invisible power who is peeping in everyone's mind all the time to make all people first find and get exactly whatever they dream or desire or demand and then HE decides based on HIS own judgement as what each person actually deserves in terms of prize or punishment in life.
~ Anuj Somany
There is no bigger punishment to a person than to be an intelligent in an environment of an organisation or a nation where most people are only sycophants.
~ Anuj Somany
There is perhaps no one who is punished more than a person who is truly good to the people.
~ Anuj Somany
In this town of towheaded drunks, [his daughter] would bear the weight of her difference, doled out in murmurs, taunts, and shoves. But now it occurred to Victor that she would suffer more than he ever had because, unlike him, she had been loved, and her punishment would come as a surprise.
~ Anya Ulinich