We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Love cannot be turned on as a reward. It cannot be turned off as a punishment. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
For me in the past, working out has been a real chore and a punishment. When you're down that route, you're never… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
“Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come… — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But… — Dean Ambrose Copy Share Image
I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The law is that you must live in the house you have built. The law is absurd: it is written down nowhere.… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as… — Karen Pryor Copy Share Image
“They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked… — Nabokov i Tyrants Destroyed i Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was the devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!” he repeated with… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
