Punishment Quotes · Page 37

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

— Lillian Hellman

Falling for you was my worst crime, breaking the rules was my greatest punishment but loving you was the best decision.

— Monika Geidane

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

— Elvira Nabiullina

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is…

— Walter Kaufmann

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Punishment was collective: judges sentenced not just the guilty individual but also family members, neighbors, and community leaders.”

— Anonymous

“Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

— Anonymous

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being…

— Ronnie Milsap

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

When you know what you have done wrong, punishment is not so painful because it feels deserved and serves to improve you.…

— Anonymous

In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists…

— David Fahrenthold

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the…

— Allan Pinkerton

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

— Clarence Darrow

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a…

— Oscar Wilde

I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon…

— Genghis Khan

Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only…

— David Harsanyi

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that…

— George Bernard Shaw

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on…

— Charlotte Brontë

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

— John le Carre

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

— William J. Clinton

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people…

— B. F. Skinner

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and…

— Joseph Addison

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all…

— Vladimir Putin

“Verily, Allah lets [a person] enjoy a blessing for as long as He wills. But when He is no longer thanked for…

— Hasan al-Basri

“He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

— Woody Allen

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what…

— Benjamin Tucker

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

— Chanakya

“I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own…

— Seanan McGuire

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment…

— Ron Chernow

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

— Ovid

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

— Tacitus

I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing…

— Andre Ward