I don’t believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don’t believe in punishment.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
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.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
If I have to pick one story that most influenced ‘The Hunger Games,’ it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.
I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one’s punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don’t deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
My body is durable, my body is able to withstand a lot of practices, a lot of punishment.
What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don’t respect the law.
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read ‘Crime and Punishment,’ and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, ’cause it was the first time that I hadn’t just entered a book, but a book had entered me.
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.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
The Qur’an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice.
‘Pumped Up Kicks’ is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote ‘In Cold Blood’ or Dostoevsky wrote ‘Crime & Punishment.’ It’s psychologically breaking down someone’s state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.
I’m not in this sport to take punishment.
The press should not get special privileges – if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books – but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.
I contend that it’s impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
I remember my brother was always a jerk to me. One time, he bought Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Smash Hits,’ and he gave it to me because he didn’t like it, thinking it was a punishment.
I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning… I feel there are less flawed methods.
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.
I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime and punishment.
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.
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive ‘talking to’ was all I got.
There’s only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so.
I don’t agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is – BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can’t do that.
Till 1782, I believed in the doctrine of Calvin: that is, that the majority of mankind were objects of divine condemnation and that their punishment would be everlasting. The ‘Systeme de la Nature,’ read about the beginning of that year, changed my opinion and made me a Deist.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
You can’t cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It’s a mess.
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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.
Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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.
