Quotes About Punishment

I'm not one who thinks that people should be locked up and thrown away the key.

Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

43] lord i refuse to engage prayer as a weapon i wish it to be like a river between two shores for i seek neither punishment nor grace but rather new skin that can bear this world

The fault in suffering such torment is his, for his heart's boundless capacity to love was given so that he might direct it toward One possessing an infinite undying beauty. By misusing it and spending it on transitory beings, he has done wrong and suffers the punishment for his fault through the pain of separation.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Nothing so concentrates the mind as the sight of the gallows.

As Orion disappears to the west in March, Scorpius is rising in the east: Orion was killed by a scorpion, a punishment for boasting there was no living creature who could conquer him, and the scorpion still chases him across the night sky.

We killed an innocent girl

Alison was great at keeping secrets, but she was also great at punishing people with the truth." - Jason Dilaurentis, Pretty Little Liars

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.