Punishment Quotes

1036 quotes by 743 authors

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime… — Hannah Arendt
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment… — Aristotle
Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a… — Paul Auster
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. — Jose Bergamin
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which… — Bruno Bettelheim
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. — Anatole Broyard
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit… — John Calvin
You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face… — David Cameron
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah,… — Kirk Cameron
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. — Tony Campolo
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own… — Albert Camus
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone
Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I… — Aurangzeb
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic… — Carl Sagan

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