Punishment Quotes - Page 13

• I’d forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” seemed too close to home at the mo-ment. “Culture Club?” Now his mouth curled downward. “And you accuse me of practicing cruel and unusual punishment.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Song, Hurt, Mistake

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• Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

  Agatha Christie

  Evil, Secret, Sometimes

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Suspicion, Grows, Espionage

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

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• The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dad, Names

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• No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Justice, Judging, Guilt

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• You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

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• The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, Sin

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

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• Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

  John le Carre

  Skins, London, Faces

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Paying Taxes, Making Money

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2012

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• Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

  Enid Blyton

  Kindness, Wish, Looks

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• Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Opportunity, Self

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.22, Booklassic

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• And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.

  Karen Chance

  Ideas, Challenges, Why Not

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kissing, Men, Bed

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• Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

  Laird Barron

  Enlightenment, Rewards

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• Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

  George R. R. Martin

  May, Sin, Crime

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2785, Bantam

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• She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

  Mitch Albom

  Gone, Fixing, No Hope

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Loss, Dark

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2016

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• It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Jail, Solitude, Age

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• The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Hands, Silence

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

  Mark Twain

  School, Holiday, Fishing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4550, Delphi Classics

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• When hope is gone, time is punishment.

  Mitch Albom

  Gone, Gone Time

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• She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

  Michelle Alexander

  Justice, Criminals, Prevention

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.188, The New Press

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• Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Book, Publication, Written

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