Punishment Quotes


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"Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime."
Author: Allen Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"And where the offence is, let the great axe fall."
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Then spare the rod and spoil the child."
Author: Butler Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand."
Author: Cowper Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Now the whole team is punished."
Author: Thornton Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"I wanted to get away from there as quickly as possible. If that's the punishment for a game-winning hit, I'll take it. It's a good feeling when everybody's jumping down trying to hit you as hard as they can."
Author: Winn Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."
Author: Neville Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Punishment Quotes
"We reserve the ultimate punishment ... for the worst of the worst. And folks, he still sits right in front of you without a shred of remorse."
Author: Conway Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other."
Author: Howe Quotes Category: Canadian Politician Quotes Punishment Quotes
"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: / But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad."
Author: Bible Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"It's never been our policy to discuss any type of team punishment, ... We've talked to Torrie and he knows exactly where he stands right now."
Author: Allen Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"It's never been our policy to discuss any type of team punishment. We've talked to Torrie and he knows exactly where he stands right now."
Author: Allen Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"That's not punishment, and that's the problem."
Author: Sifton Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just."
Author: Weil Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"I've said this before and I'll say it again: We're after compliance before punishment,"
Author: Purdy Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period."
Author: Keller Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"I am quite sure the court has given this sentence because the court thinks that is the right punishment for whatever,"
Author: Mohamad Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
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