Quotes About Punishment

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions about the shallowness of our own spirituality, theology and ethics. Do we not want to see wrongdoers put down and punished? One

Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and start to see a more sanitised version. A person like that starts to be seen as a victim.

Het zou zijn verdiende loon zijn als iemand hem eens doodslaat of -steekt. Misschien zal hij dan eindelijk eens ophouden met onschuldige voorbijgangers geld af te persen. - Halt

Bucer did not hesitate to declare, that "Servetus deserved something worse than death.

The numbers burned in effigy, or condemned to penance, punishments generally equivalent to exile, confiscation, and taint of blood, to all ruin but the mere loss of worthless life, amounted to three hundred and nine thousand.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

Y bien, ¿le gustaría el corredor de la muerte? Se lo merecía, decidió Jeffers. Estupidez en Primer Grado.

Ojo por ojo, la esencia de todas las venganzas.

are not punished for their sins, but by

making laws with penalties of death, and consequently

This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief

And therefore the punishment of those who would not follow him, was to lose their souls, i. e. their lives

having by his fault forfeited his own life, by some act that deserves death; he, to whom he has forfeited it, may (when he has him in his power) delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service, and he does him no injury by it:

The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

Typically, he found some value in his troublemaking and in the punishment he earned for it. "You get to know people that you don't ordinarily know if you're one of the good boys. And sometimes the world's not always made up of all the good boys either, not by a long shot," he said.