Punishment Quotes - page 6

Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into. (Christopher McDougall)
When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances. View quote
Lisa Unger
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. View quote
Robert Duvall
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development, compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment. View quote
Simon Baron-Cohen
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. View quote
Geoffrey Fisher
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me. (Althea Gibson)
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. View quote
Arthur Smith
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur. View quote
Bram Fischer
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. View quote
David Knopfler
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day. View quote
Dan Chaon
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. View quote
Elizabeth Fry
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. View quote
Ellen Key
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! View quote
Gil Gerard
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got. View quote
Lincoln Steffens
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. View quote
Lionel Jospin
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. (Lyman Trumbull)
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. View quote
Laurence Housman
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. View quote
Ron Chernow
I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything. View quote
Ronnie Milsap
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God. View quote
Russell Johnson