Punishment Quotes

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

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

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

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.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.