Top 1200 Crime And Punishment Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a punishment, not a drink.

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

Looking back at all of my defeats, the only real punishment that I've taken in this sport was against Maidana. I got a fractured jaw.

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

Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.

Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

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

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, the tough reality, this slaughterhouse we’ve come to die in, if not to kill and to eat the animals, our fellow creatures. Therefore, do not reproduce, do not repeat the crimes committed against you, do not give back the same, evil paid with evil, as imposing life is the ultimate crime. Do not disturb the unborn, let them be in the peace of nothingness. Anyway we’ll all eventually go back there, so why beat around the bush?

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.