Punishment Quotes (519 Quotes)


    those arch criminals who launched the wars of aggression and had their hands blotted with the blood of the people around the world received their due punishment.



    But Rushford is quick to add that methods of execution such as the firing squad and the gallows are not only safe, they're deserved punishments. If done properly, everything that they've done has been humane, ... Nobody dies as easily as convicted murders in this country. It's a much quicker, more merciful death than their victims suffered.

    An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.





    To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.



    Corporal punishment is prohibited, but it's not a blanket policy that prohibits an employee from ever touching a student. There are situations when an employee may have to intervene physically in situations such as student fights.


    Some of us were rich and we lived in the city and we never took care of this place and the people we left here. If I was in a car, I wouldn't stop to pick people up. This is our punishment.


    This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.


    The neighbors would talk about it, ... We didn't believe in waiting until you get home (to punish). We believed in taking care of it right on the spot. I recall them crying while they were doing it, but that's the punishment. There were no extra chores. It was just, 'Hey, give me 25 right there.'

    I know what I did, ... I admitted it and I was punished. I was a man about it and I dealt with it. But now I feel like someone who committed a crime and did the time and suddenly gets a phone call two years later he has to go back to jail. It's not fair.


    I refused to play this game, so I was punished. But this source game is not only played on Page Six. It is also played for high stakes on Wall Street and in Washington. We've all read how well-known and respected journalists have readily protected top-ranked officials leaking classified information. It makes one wonder Where does the political reporter end and the political operative begin.

    I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.


    The amount of crime is determined not only by the rationality and preferences of would-be criminals, but also by the economic and social environment created by public policies, including expenditures on police, punishments for different crimes, and opportunities for employment, schooling, and training programs.


    For the theft of agricultural implements, of arms and of medicines, let the king award punishment, taking into account the time ,of the offence and the use ,of the object .


    And had those who are unjust all that is in the earth and the like of it with it, they would certainly offer it as ransom (to be saved) from the evil of the punishment on the day of resurrection and what they never thought of shall become plain to them from Allah.


    I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

    But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.



    I won't go into details on the punishment, but I will use a standard of bad judgment for imposing whatever action I take, ... Those who were not on the cruise did not show bad judgment.

    A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

    I am still shell-shocked, to be honest. I felt in a great frame of mind, hit the ball beautifully on the range and just got off to a bad, bad start. Every minor mistake got punished. That's obviously what Augusta is all about. It bit back in a large way today.

    I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression.

    Banning pro athletes for two years for a first offense would be depriving them of their livelihood, ... The penalties should be severe, they should be harsh, but they shouldn't be such that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.





    The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

    Now its Long doing the punishing if one of his Bears behaves unbearably. Theyll say, ... Coach, you dont understand. Yes, I do understand. I was there once. I shouldnt have done it then and you dont need to now.

    And if We hold back from them the punishment until a stated period of time, they will certainly say What prevents it Now surely on the day when it will come to them, it shall not be averted from them and that which they scoffed at shall beset them.

    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 that it brings than because of its own foulness.

    There is a consensus in America that some criminal acts are so horrendous that the death penalty is wholly appropriate punishment. Someone involved in a conspiracy to murder thousands of innocent people could easily fit in this category.



    For something as dramatic as that act, the punishment in no way fits the crime. I'd say historically we've done a horrible job of addressing juvenile crime, which is why these young people are growing up to become adult offenders.



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