The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been… — Dimitrije Tucovic Copy Share Image
I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent… — Allyson Robinson Copy Share Image
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Don't punish your current lover for the mistakes of your ex, not everyone is aiming to hurt you or ruin your life.… — Tshepo Koos Maluleke Copy Share Image
Never punish your new love for something an old love did to you. Start each new relationship like you have never been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Defiantly serving out the inhumane term of a punishment she had imposed on herself, confusing obedience with rebellion and vindication with endurance.… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence — Jay Bilas Copy Share Image
The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition. — Isaac Parker Copy Share Image
How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the… — Claude Montefiore Copy Share Image
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell. — Isaac Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
“I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Kushirikiana na maadui wa nchi yetu ni hatia ya kosa la uhaini. Adhabu yake ni kifo, au kifungo cha maisha.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.” — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“...when it comes time for punishment for our sins, surely it's only the person who's done wrong who's expected to pay?" Sister… — Elizabeth Ludwig Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
