Punishment Quotes - Page 23

For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Punishment follows close on crime.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

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

The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.

Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.

It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.