Quotes About Punishment

If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn't go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America today. We lock them up as if locking them up is gonna solve the problem. And locking them up does not solve the problem. Did locking me up make me better? No, it did not. It made my struggle harder.

The simple truth is that America is locking up too many people, for too long, and spending too much money on them.

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

Fear is what activates your tools; your jab, your movement, your speed, your ability to absorb punishment.

Our top targets are the people who tortured and killed Sergei Magnitsky. But our secondary targets are those people who profited from the crime that he was killed over or facilitated the money laundering for those people.

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it as a deterrent to crime.

Detective you have to arrest her. You have to arrest her and put her to death. Not just the regular death penalty - that's not good enough for her. I want her to hang by her heels, rip her to shreds, burn her till she's black, and pull out her hair, strand by strand.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman

In Russia a café like this would have been closed down in a moment. In Europe they would have put the owner in prison. In the USA the proprietor would have been hit with an absolutely massive fine. And in Japan the boss of an establishment like this would have committed seppuku out of a sense of shame.

Evil goes unpunished for too often.

For every rod of wet bamboo upon the student's back, the teacher deserves two.

The one thing people loved more than an outlaw was seeing him punished.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

Talvez todos mereçamos ir para o inferno, mas alguns merecem ir antes dos outros.

Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

Those who steal should get extra punishment because the destroy other honest peoples trust between eachother.