Punishment Quotes - Page 28

• There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Limits, Retribution, Duty

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Adequate, Vices, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

  Samuel Johnson

  Silence

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.499

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• He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Faults, Foolish

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.343

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• Though punishment be slow, still it comes.

  George Herbert

  Stills

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• Service without reward is punishment.

  George Herbert

  Rewards

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.254

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• Sin and the sinner both deserve punishment

  Kim Soo-hyun

  Sin, Deserve, Sinner

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• The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.

  Francois de la Noue

  Ignorance, Names, Bravery

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• If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.

  Edward Gibbon

  Order, Government, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.908, Delphi Classics

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• Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Giving

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• Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

  Aristotle

  Good Life, Spring, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2113, Princeton University Press

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, People, Heaven

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• God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Justice

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• Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

  John Conyers

  Way, Wealth, Stealing

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• The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Dog, Ivy, Police

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• The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Criminals, Crime, Dormitory

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Matter, Poverty, Wealth

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• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Average, Progress

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• The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

  H. L. Mencken

  Understanding, Opponents, Crime

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• Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, People, Prison

  "Putin speaks out on Ukraine, Crimea and US relations with French media". Interview with Gilles Bouleau and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, www.rt.com. June 5, 2014.

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Men, Facts

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Crime, Unforgivable, Stabbing

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• It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

  James Fox

  Despair, Absence

  James Fox (1996). “Killer on Campus”

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• Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

  Steve Aylett

  Dog, Knowing, People

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