If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“This is your punishment, Lara," he whispered. "To burn as I do." -Hunter” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
White parents use time out. My mom used a different type of time out. She'd be like, 'There...take time out to pick… — Martin Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It’s lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.” -Skulduggery” — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each… — Faxian Copy Share Image
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,… — William Jones Copy Share Image
“I had authority issues. In my defense, my math teacher had it coming. She’d made me write one hundred on the black… — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if… — Charles H Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance;… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“You land a second strike, this time just on my left cheek. It feels hard already and stings like hell. I imagine… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“Within seconds, his hand is inside my panties. Now he can feel just how much I am enjoying this. I think I… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm taking punishment - I think I'm out there delivering the blows. — Deebo Samuel Copy Share Image
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging. — Meldrim Thomson, Jr Copy Share Image
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
