Quotes About Punishment

We lived by that which we held to be good and punished that which we held to be evil. You live by that which you denounce as evil and punish that which you know to be good.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Al aceptar el castigo, no por culpa alguna, sino por nuestras virtudes, traicionamos nuestro codigo e hicimos posible el suyo.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for beeing good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world.

The punishment she had wanted to inflict on him was the torture of shame; what she had inflicted was the torture of boredom.

Nada puede hacer que sea moral destruir a los mejores. Uno no puede ser castigado por ser bueno.

el castigo es producto de los propios errores

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.

Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself.

if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.

God grants us long enough lives to punish ourselves.

His only advice was to be careful in Unicoi because there were folks down there mean enough to hang an elephant. I said okay, thinking it was an expression his people had. But no. They gave the death penalty to an elephant there one time.

If Doc Homer found out, he would construct some punishment to cure us of superstition. We agreed with him in principle—we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

I told myself it was all right, I wasn't disappointed, it was better this way. I wondered in a detached way whether it was all part of some cosmic punishment for Crazy Jake, the blood brother I had killed in Vietnam. Or perhaps for the other things I've done. To be periodically tantalized by the hope of something real, something good, always knowing at the same time it was all going to turn to dust.

Ultimately, all executions are political. Their exercise is arbitrary, often capricious, and irrevocable.

The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while longer, making it possible for them still to praise him.

Their view was held by each and every one of the prophets: Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel—take your pick. It is that the people of God have sinned and God is punishing them for it. Suffering comes from God, to penalize his people for not living as they should. This is sometimes called the "prophetic" or the "classical" view of suffering.

Some superscholars of the day such as Origen tried to resolve the problems in more sophisticated ways, but these views also led to ideas that were later deemed objectionable, such as the view that all of us have souls that preexisted and were brought into the world as a form of punishment.

The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife. The book of Amos insists that the people of God suffer because God is punishing them for their sins; the book of Job insists that the innocent can suffer; and the book of Daniel indicates that the innocent in fact will suffer. All of these books are different, all of them have a message, and all of the messages deserve to be heard.

In the 1500s, it was a crime to be caught kissing in Naples, Italy. The punishment? Death!

Bad people need to pay a price. And the price should be high. ~Billy Summers

This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.