Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anjem Choudary

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

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.

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.

Tom Tancredo

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

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.

Thomas Brooks

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Victor Hugo

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Vicente Fox

When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.

Vanna Bonta

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

Sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.

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.

Tacitus

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Richard Attenborough

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

John Owen

The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.

Norbert Wiener

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

Mitch Albom

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Mitch Albom

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Michelle Alexander

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

Max Lucado

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.