Quotes About Punishment

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

Those who commit gun crimes and those who enable them should know this: We're coming after you.

If you committed a serious crime, you should not be allowed to own a gun.

We have to penalize those who desecrated Guru Granth Sahib.

Frank Castle: The sun slipped away behind me, the last sliver seeming to pause on the horizon, then succumbing to the black. And I drove on through the shadows of America... though the long, cold, dark night that I've made of my life.

No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes justice being done.

We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as one of the most stringent of punishments. Even criminals do not aspire to solitary confinement.

A child who misbehaves has a need. To overlook the need behind the misbehavior can prevent us from doing the right thing. Asking ourselves, "What can I do to correct my child's behavior?" often leads to thoughtless punishment. Asking, "What does my child need?" lets us proceed with confidence that we will handle the situation well.

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments. At the heart of humankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another.

soledad es devastadora para la psique humana. Es por eso que el confinamiento solitario se considera uno de los castigos más crueles. En el corazón de la existencia del género humano está el deseo de tener intimidad con otro y de que nos ame.

Guilt asks for punishment, and its request is granted. Not in truth, but in the world of shadows and illusions built on sin.10

Kahneman later wrote: This was a joyous moment, in which I understood an important truth about the world: because we tend to reward others when they do well and punish them when they do badly, and because there is regression to the mean, it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them.

I have tried hard to punish myself for that, and certain other things. No more. Let the Outsider punish me; we deceive ourselves when we think that we can measure out justice to ourselves. I wanted to end my guilt. What was just about that? I should feel guilty. I deserve it.

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Die Unterdrücker der Menschheit bestrafen, ist Gnade; ihnen verzeihen, ist Barbarei.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.