Punishment Quotes - page 4

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder? (Albert Camus)
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime, The punishment fit the crime. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
If the Soul sees, after death, what passes on this earth, and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery, and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten. View quote
Albert Pike
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. View quote
John Calvin
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. View quote
Orrin Hatch
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. View quote
George Sand
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls. View quote
Carl Sagan
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good. (Confucius)
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. View quote
Alfie Kohn
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. View quote
Max Nordau
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime. View quote
John Stuart Mill
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years? View quote
Anton Chekhov
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it. (Anton Chekhov)
People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others.... These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism".... Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?! View quote
Yusuf Qaradawi
Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset. View quote
Jack McDevitt
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. View quote
William J. Brennan
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. View quote
Charles Mackay