Quotes About Punishment

People still use the phrase hoisted by his own petard

You laid hands upon the blood of the dragon and for that offense, you must be punished.

So when King Guy of Jerusalem (the overall ruler of the Crusader states in Outremer) refused to punish Reynald for his rampant douchebaggery, Saladin figured that it was up to him to kick this Reynald guy so hard in the gonads that his grandchildren would be born impotent.

The Vatican preached that because the Jews had killed Jesus and rejected his teachings they were punished with the loss of their Holy Temple and the city of Jerusalem, as well as their homeland. In addition, they were damned to wander the earth forever as a divine warning to anyone who might refuse to obey the Church. (It is important to note that this teaching was categorically rejected and forbidden by the Second Vatican Council in 1962.) Baccio Pontelli, on the other hand, was not

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

D?vod vytvo?ení tolika trestných ?in? je stejný, jako vždy byl u všech diktatur: pot?eba udržovat ob?any ve strachu a nev?domosti, co sm?jí a co nesm?jí, a možnost trestat kohokoli kdykoli za cokoli.

Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their current offense.

Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses.

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Mandatory minimums are focused on punishment, not rehabilitation.

Tough action is being taken on criminals involved in robbery, kidnapping and other related crimes.

Most people get scared away from having an opinion. It's not so much my opinions everybody relates to, it's that I don't care about being punished for it.

North Korea publicly denounced me as an enemy of my people and punished all my relatives. They have this guilty by association policy and they go after three generations of your family or up to eight generations of your family.

Justice is horrible.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime. According to me, at least.

Amy was not happy. For whatever reason. I'm not even going to ask. I can guess, but I'm not going to ask. But I know you must know this: Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God." "Meaning?" "She doles out punishment