Punishment Quotes

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

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

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

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.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

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.

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.

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.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

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