Punishment Quotes - Page 24

• Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Fire, Views, People

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

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• They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Jobs, Self

  Song: Trouble in Mind

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• I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Want, Finance

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• Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

  Kamala Harris

  Smart, Mean, Doe

  Kamala Harris (2010). “Smart on Crime”, p.13, Chronicle Books

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• The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Messages, Crime, Commit

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• I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

  David Knopfler

  College, Liable, Gravity

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• Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

  Dolly Parton

  Revenge, Hate, Iron

  Song: Evening Shades

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• There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

  Bill McCollum

  Criminals, United States, Needs

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• There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Withdrawal, Literature, Nations

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• We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

  John Shelton Reed

  Country, School, Scotch

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

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• I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

  Ron Rash

  Book, Thinking, Years

  "'Nothing Gold' Stays Long In Appalachia". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 16, 2013.

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• Let's not talk punishment.

  George Steinbrenner

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• People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

  Tom Tancredo

  Want, Deportation, Use

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Sibling, Mean

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• From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.

  George Gilder

  Order, Keys, Perfect

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

  Anjem Choudary

  Messages, Insult, Subjects

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Law, Parent

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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• It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

  Francis Chan

  Clay, Arrogant, Redemption

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, People, World

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.411, Open Court Publishing

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• I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have. Also justice should be the goal of every American. I think that's what makes this country. To me, justice means the innocent should be found innocent. It means that those who do wrong should get their due punishment. Ultimately, it means fair treatment. So a call for justice shouldn't offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn't warrant an apology.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Country, Mean, Apology

  "Andrew Hawkins hits back after police label shootings protest 'pathetic'" by Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2014.

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• We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

  Wendell Berry

  Ruins

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.47, Counterpoint Press

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• I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Father, Water, Laughing

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.

  Joe Peterson

  Positivity, Stay Positive, Choices

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• Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Advice, Effects

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