Top 512 Punished Quotes & Sayings

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

I was punished for communicating.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

We are generally punished by where we have sinned.

Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

If Britain doesn't stay in the Single Market or Customs Union, we are very much in favor of a free trade agreement between the U.K. and Europe. We don't want Britain to be punished for its decision to leave, and it is not in our interests for Britain to be punished because we may be the ones who lose out as much if not more than them.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger

No one gets punished for corruption in our country.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

I don't believe that you should punish the people of Iraq because you don't like their leader. Saddam Hussein is not being punished. He's fat, and he is eating enough food and living in palaces. But his people are punished by denying them food and medicine.

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.

Bill Clinton was punished for his behavior.

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

My friends need to be punished.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

If you do a mistake, I think you should get punished.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.