Top 1200 Crime And Punishment Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

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

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

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

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

I think the NFL needs a more stringent policy when it comes to domestic violence. Make the punishment work.

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

We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

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

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again. To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

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.

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

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

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.

Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.