Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stuart Mill

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

John Shelby Spong

The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

John Ray

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Martin Luther

I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.

Philip Roth

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

Peter De Vries

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Penn Jillette

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Penn Jillette

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

Marlo Thomas

... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

Nassau William Senior

The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

Myrtle Reed

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Mort Sahl

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

John Ruskin

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Michel Foucault

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Michel Foucault

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

Oscar Wilde

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, 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 brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Oscar Wilde

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Lyman Trumbull

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Abraham Lincoln

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Jacqueline Carey

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

Christopher Hitchens

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

Gary Becker

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Ernst Junger

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

Erin Hunter

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

Florence King

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Euripides

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Francis Chan

It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

George Washington

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

George Washington

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.