Punishment Quotes · Page 34

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

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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— John le Carre

Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Lillian Hellman

“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount…

— William Landay

All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe,…

— Michio Kushi

Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the…

— H. L. Mencken

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a…

— Catherine the Great

I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should…

— Zac Goldsmith

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

— Walter Kaufmann

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

— Elvira Nabiullina

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

— Monika Geidane

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

— Bryan Stevenson

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

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

— Joseph Addison

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

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

— Emmeline Pankhurst

“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

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

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

— Woody Allen

“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

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

— Benjamin Tucker

“Unaweza kusaliti nchi kwa sababu za kiitikadi, kisiasa, matatizo ya akili, au pesa. Ukifanya hivyo na ukabainika; utawajibika kwa adhabu ya kifo,…

— Enock Maregesi

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

— Richard Cohen