Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine the Great

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

This is our system. It's the only way we can punish them.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Auberon Waugh

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Conrad Black

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Confucius

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

Andrew Fastow

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Ronald Reagan

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Tim Kaine

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Tim Vine

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Thomas Bernhard

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Tamora Pierce

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Oscar Wilde

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

F. Scott Fitzgerald

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

George Steinbrenner

Let's not talk punishment.

George Soros

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Helen Keller

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

George Eliot

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Geoffrey Fisher

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

J. C. Ryle

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Jerzy Kosinski

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Jeaniene Frost

Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer. Breath tickled my neck as he laughed. "I know. I'm truly gifted.

Georges Bernanos

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Jean Piaget

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

George Bernard Shaw

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

C. S. Lewis

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.