Punishment Quotes - Page 15

• I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

  Jose Rizal

  Father, Son, Honor

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• Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

  Gena Showalter

  Morning, Night, Knowing

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Darkest Night”, p.15, Harlequin

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• I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?

  Ellen Schreiber

  Kissing, Vampire, Might

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• Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Men, Criticism

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.175, Penguin

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• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

  Vince Flynn

  Revenge, Retribution

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• Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Enough, Ifs

  Joyce Carol Oates (2017). “Blonde: A Novel”, p.68, HarperCollins

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• They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Matter, Shoelaces, Belts

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• It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Baby, Men, Abortion

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• To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Desire

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• The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

  Saint Augustine

  Mind, Disorder

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.16, OUP Oxford

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• I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Everlasting, Feels

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.593, Psychology Press

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• I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about for a long time. What form of punishment would be enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you' you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.

  Derek Landy

  Thinking, Long, Would Be

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• People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

  John Green

  Real, Distance, Glasses

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.39, Penguin

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• If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artistic Life, Judging, Each Day

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• The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fighting, Winning

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Heaven, Adults

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• Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Responsibility, Law, Choices

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

  Buck Brannaman

  Dirty, Discipline, People

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• Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, Suffering

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• We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Murder, Knows

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• He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, Justice, Criminals

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.252, Random House

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• it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

  Michel Foucault

  Crime, Certainty, Discouraging

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.9, Vintage

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• You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.” “Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Hands, Draco Malfoy

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• Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

  Steig Larsson

  Feelings, Firsts, Clarity

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