Punishment Quotes - Page 24

• The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

  Horace

  Tyrants, Envy, Envious

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Epistles, I. 2. 57, 1922.

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• We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Evil, Reason

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• I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

  Aurangzeb

  Total War, Knows

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• I think we make our own hell down here
  during our life times-
  the penalty for not being true;
  the punishment for fear;
  we suffer the consequences

  Heather Nova

  Thinking, Suffering, Hell

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• As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.

  Irene Khan

  Iran, Usa, Arabia

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• I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Men, Law, Numbers

  Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1972.

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• I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Hate, Hell, Feels

  Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.134, Harper Collins

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• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.

  Chapman Cohen

  Religious, Independent, Men

  "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.

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• The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1988). “Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961”, p.84, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.

  Roger Sherman

  Believe, Taken, Judging

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• Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

  Max Nordau

  Equality, Law, Civilization

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• But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

  Guru Nanak

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

  Horace

  Anger, Cutting, Complaining

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• The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth?

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Pain, Cutting, Animal

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• It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Agreement, Joy

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

  Albert Einstein

  Sorry, People, Giving

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• Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

  Lyman Abbott

  Wrath, Law, Community

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• Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men... hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her . . . he shall be surely punished."

  Russell M. Nelson

  Hurt, Children, Men

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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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• When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say: "Thy will be done O Lord. The Lord giveth, and he taketh away", you have not yet known the God of love, for God giveth only. God never takes that which has not been given. What God gives to you you regive to Him for His regiving.
  You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life - for that is what death is.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Grief, Grieving

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• There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people usually talk, and the God who talks to us. The god we learn to fear, and the God who speaks to us of mercy. The god who is somewhere up on high, and the God who is here in our daily lives. The god who demands punishment, and the God who forgives us our trespasses. The god who threatens us with the torments of Hell, and the God who shows us the true path.
  There are two gods. A god who casts us off because of our sins, and a God who calls to us with His love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Teacher, Two

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• This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Men, Guilt

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• Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Stars, Jobs, Motivation

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• IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Mind, Sin

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Novel, Severe

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