Punishment Quotes · Page 59

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

— William Penn

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

— Samuel Richardson

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

— Eric Hoffer

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

— Euripides

“Arch your back, Alisa – show me that gorgeous ass. Show me what belongs to me.” Your voice is enthralling; an intoxicating…

— Felicity Brandon

More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.

— Ash Sarkar

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of…

— Georg Buchner

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at…

— Kurt Huber

Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck.…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp.…

— Brian Eno

Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can…

— African Spir

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very…

— Albert Camus

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

— Jerzy Kosinski

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

— Meldrim Thomson, Jr

If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

— Pete Buttigieg

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments…

— Eusebius

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with…

— Ryan Reynolds

Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.

— Lloyd Paul Stryker

When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have…

— Vicente Fox

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

— Ernest Van den Haag

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of…

— Herman Melville

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

— George Bernard Shaw