Punishment Quotes - Page 29

• You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Live Your Life, Stripes, Dying

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1876). “The Christian's secret of a happy life. By H.W.S.”, p.49

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• The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.

  John Gerstner

  Jesus, Reality, Ideas

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• Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Men, Soul

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• On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Law, Painful Death, Disrespect

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• The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.

  Wiley Drake

  Prayer, People, Scary

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• I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Issues, Perspective

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

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• If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Difficult, Happens, Objects

  "Wilhelm Meister's Travels". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1829.

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• But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Pride, Law, Unjust

  "Les Mouches (The Flies)". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 1), June 3, 1943.

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• We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Nuclear, Pieces

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Uncertain, Detection, Severity

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• The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trying, Merit, Receiving

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (1922). “Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
  The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
  Is all the pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Faults, Exile

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• With patience bear what pains you have deserved,
  Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

  Ovid

  Pain, Grieving, Bears

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• How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Cells, Solitude

  Herman Melville (1968). “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life”, p.125, Northwestern University Press

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• When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

  Euripides

  Wealth

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• Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.

  Gilles Gratton

  Wall, Hockey, Past

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• The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Past, Lust, Storm

  Dante Alighieri (1995). “Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.49, Indiana University Press

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• If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

  Stendhal

  God, Christian, Believe

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.528, World Classic

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• Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

  Anna Quindlen

  Loss, Hair, Cost

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• Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

  Laurence Sterne

  Blessing, Doors, Law

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.513

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• Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.

  Ishmael Reed

  Loyalty, Education, White

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• Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

  Hesiod

  Men, Cities, Suffering

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• Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Intellectual, Cheerful

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.304, UPNE

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