Punish Quotes

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.