Punishment Quotes

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

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

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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

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

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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.

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.

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.

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

Wickedness is its own 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.

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.

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

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

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.