Punishment Quotes - Page 22

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

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

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

I stew all night in my own grease.

As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence that crime causes poverty. By aligning themselves against the police, against commonsense tactics like stop and frisk, against metal detectors in public housing, against swift and certain punishment, and for a broad array of legal protections for accused criminals, liberals helped to aggrieve the lives of the poor and society as a whole.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

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

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.