Quotes About Punishment

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Fate will never punish a man for returning harm first done to him. Deceit matched by deceit, the tables turned: treachery pays you back in pain, not kindness.

Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood. Murder sets the plague-storm on the city.

you'll pay in tears, I promise you, for this, this witch-hunt.

All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light!

Evil gains work their punishment.

But if these men are wrong, let them suffer nothing worse than they mete out to me— these masters of injustice!

The punishment begins here—where will the end be?

vengeance no one outruns

Kazna odgovara krivici: da nam bude uskra?eno svako zadovoljstvo življenja, da smo dovedeni do najvišeg stepena odvratnosti prema životu.

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree...and think 25 to life would be appropriate.

An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

Him the Almighty PowerHurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal skyWith hideous ruin and combustion downTo bottomless perdition, there to dwellIn adamantine chains and penal fire,Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.