Punishment Quotes - Page 13

• I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fighting, Trying, Want

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.226, Penguin

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• We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Girl, Animal, Boys

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• I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sleep, Fire, House

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Past, Men

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• The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

  Gore Vidal

  Ideas, Religion, Atheism

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Apr 07, 2015

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• Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

  Anita Shreve

  Good Luck, Ideas, Rewards

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• Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

  Candace Bushnell

  Karma, Risk, Watches

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• In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.

  Milan Kundera

  Cutting, Feet, Air

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• There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Voice, Valleys, Tone

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Moving, Reading

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• In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Despair, Would Be

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.64, Scholastic

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• I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Years, Two

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1387, Dell

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• He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Comfort, World, Might

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Son, Men

  "In praise of idleness: and other essays".

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• Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult matters, such as punishment, correction and judgment. It also includes what most of us would consider positive matters, such as the fruit of the Spirit.

  Francis Frangipane

  Confused, Hands, Grace

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• Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Desire, Fierce, Adultery

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

  Thomas Hardy

  Angel, Bears, Agree

  Thomas Hardy (2014). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.313, First Avenue Editions

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• It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Motivational, Mirrors, People

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.129, Baen Books

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• Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

  Jesse Ball

  Wish, Three, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Nov 27, 2011

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• As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Doors, Would Be

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• But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

  James A. Baldwin

  Grief, Keys, Usual

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• His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Law, Broken

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.756, Delphi Classics

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• It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

  Christopher Paolini

  World, Want, Our Actions

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• Now that I think about it, you’d have to be a glutton for punishment to keep coming near me given my acerbic personality where you’re concerned. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Personality, Given

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.526, Macmillan

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• I love him. (Artemis) How can you say that? You don’t even understand what love means. Love isn’t being ashamed to be seen with the one you care about. It isn’t about punishment or hurt. Love is what gives you the strength you need to face anything no matter how brutal or frightening. It’s what allowed Ash to be beaten rather than tell his father about you. It’s what allowed him to be gutted on the floor at your feet rather than publicly shame you. And you spat on him for that love and tore him apart. For a goddess, you’re pathetic. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Father, Mean

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