Quotes About Punishment

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with offenders, and forgive them seventy-and-seven times; whereas he deals neither justly nor gently with anyone, and he did not forgive the ignorant and thoughtless first pair of juveniles even their first small offense and say, "You may go free this time, I will give you another chance.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

Well, I know. It's jam—that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.

In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

Everybody granted that if Tom were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him--it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life--that was quite another matter. As soon as the Governor understood the case, he pardoned Tom at once, and the creditors sold him down the river.

If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.

as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

The law roasted her to death at a slow fire.

there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life. Don't punish yourself, she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

As it turned out, Ilsa Hermann not only gave Liesel Meminger a book that day. She also gave her a reason to spend time in the basement, her favorite place, first with Papa, then Max. She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life. Don't punish yourself, she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

Don't punish yourself," she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some it was death in a foreign country during the war. For others it was poverty and guilt when the war was over, when six million discoveries were made throughout Europe.

Y es que la pregunta es: ¿qué modo sensato y real puede haber de resarcir una injusticia mediante una venganza punitiva? El dolor y la degradación del opresor no traerá libertad al afligido. Solo un esfuerzo inteligente e imaginativo en pos de la justicia puede lograr algo así.

In my mind I heard Father Freeman, his head bowed, announcing the punishment 'Say ten Hail Marys and go to the Hotel Paradise every summer for the remainder of your life.

Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience; a room in hell with only your name on the door

el castigo sólo produce placer a quien lo administra si la víctima tiene tiempo de conocer sus principales detalles y la personalidad de su ejecutor.

one is a punishment and the other is a misfortune