Punishment Quotes - Page 18

Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

Evil gains work their punishment.

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.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.