Punishment Quotes

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Let's not talk punishment.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.