Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Anna Jameson

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Adolf Hitler

This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

Abraham Lincoln

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Aeschylus

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Doug Stanhope

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

Dorothy Dix

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Dalai Lama

Sin contains its own judgement and punishment.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Every sin provokes its punishment.

Conrad Black

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

Clarence Darrow

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

David Frum

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

David Platt

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

Confucius

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Ambrose Bierce

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Albert Camus

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Alfie Kohn

It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

Alfie Kohn

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Andre Gide

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Anatole Broyard

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.

Anjem Choudary

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Thomas Paine

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Robert Baden-Powell

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Robert Herrick

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Simone Weil

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

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.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Tony Campolo

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.