Punishment Quotes - Page 6

• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Hands, Wave, Pity

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Crime, Familiar, Formidable

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.144

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child.

  Samuel Butler

  Children, Moments, Rearing A Child

  'Hudibras' pt. 2 (1664), canto 1, l. 843

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• Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

  John Locke

  Men, Blood, Criminal Mind

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.196

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Crime Books, Way

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

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• A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

  George Washington

  Prison, Proportion, Wells

  George Washington (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.396

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• I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most: The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Believe, People, Hardship

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• I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Humanity, Suffering, Bows

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing

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• Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.198, Google Publishing

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• If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

  John Locke

  Mind, Prison, Supple

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

  Catherine the Great

  Body, Might, Torture

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• If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

  John Bunyan

  People, Want, Christ

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• There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.

  Philip French

  Father, Men, Hollywood

  "The Guardian" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing

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• For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Crime, Intensity

  Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

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• Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Should

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• The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Too Much

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

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• It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, People, Death Penalty

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• I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love, God, Faith

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• To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

  Anatole Broyard

  Misunderstood, Possibility, Disturbed

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• This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boys, Doe, May

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2564, eBookIt.com

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• How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Is, Self, Principles

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.359, Penguin

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• This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

  Adolf Hitler

  Games, Roles, Beloved

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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