Top 1200 Crime And Punishment Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I've had a long career with a lot of fights, and I've taken a lot of punishment.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

More often than not, punishment for hazing on college campuses goes only as far as administrative investigations and student expulsions, if not mere suspensions.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

One of the things that did intrigue me about when I read the pilot - because I had not read the books before doing the show - was the mystery aspect of it. I didn't feel that it was just a crime-based story. It really does have that mystery element, and it felt like a throwback to other shows in the past that had a bit more of that. There was something iconic about it. The fact that it's set in Boston gave it a feeling that was different to me. So, I am definitely more of a fan of mysteries than I am of a circular crime-based genre.

There's crime everywhere.

Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.

Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Stupidity is not a crime.

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

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.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

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

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Barack Obama thinks this country is a crime. Obama thinks this country is a walking, living crime, the way it's treated poor people, minorities and so forth, and he wants to get even, he wants to get even with all those people that have engaged in this theft, discrimination, racism and be and so forth, he also wants to create a permanent underclass for the express purpose of making sure he's never out of office or the regime's party is never out of office.

Dying is not a crime.

Crime is sexy.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.