Famous Quotes & Sayings

Killing me doesn't punish me, it punishes my family,

Stella Young

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

William J. Brennan

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

Ujjwal Nikam

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Samuel Johnson

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

William Ralph Inge

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Walter Savage Landor

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Walter Dean Myers

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

Rick Riordan

Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

Rick Riordan

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.

Samuel Johnson

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

William Hazlitt

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

Wendell Berry

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

William P. Young

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

William P. Young

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

Zig Ziglar

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

I'm not going to punish him for being hurt.

Nancy Reagan

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

Jorge Luis Borges

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

Khaled Hosseini

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Genghis Khan

I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me.

Genghis Khan

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

Hedda Hopper

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Mahatma Gandhi

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

Mahatma Gandhi

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

James Fox

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

Gary Chapman

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

John Churton Collins

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

Napoleon Bonaparte

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

Emile M. Cioran

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.