Punishment Quotes - Page 5

• Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

  Daniel Handler

  Criminals, Crime, Feeding

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• When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
  [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

  Tacitus

  Men, Talent, Authority

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• My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Time, Sublime, Fit

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Crime, Disgrace

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• I stew all night in my own grease.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Night, Grease, Stew

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Virgil Travestie, p. 35, 1922.

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• Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Horse, Men, Justice

  c.1687 Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

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• Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?

  Hanif Kureishi

  Sex, Love Is, People

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

  Charles S. Dutton

  Mean, Cartoon, Looks

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Passion, Next, Facts

  "De Consulatu Malii Theodori Panegyris". CCXXVII,

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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Abuse, Double Standard, Decline

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Recovery, Being Alone

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• Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, People, Death Penalty

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.97, Jester House Publishing

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• One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Infamous, Crime

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

  Henry Wotton

  Men, Use, Worst

  Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.201

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Doe, Care

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• God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

  Ginger Baker

  God, Pain, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

  Lucian Leape

  Mistake, Errors, Medicine

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• There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

  Stephen Harper

  Trust, Government, Law

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• Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

  Max Lucado

  Relationship, Guilt, Innocence

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Christian, Education

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• Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Used, Scoundrels

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.24, Google Publishing

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• Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

  Haim Ginott

  Parenting, Opposites, Contrary

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• I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  People, Trials, Dozen

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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

  Albert Camus

  Law, Intuition, Definitions

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