Punishment Quotes - Page 32

• In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

  Ronald Reagan

  Favors, Want, Stories

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• The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

  Voltaire

  Men, Knowing, Race

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• Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

  Jessamyn West

  Writing, Earth, Hell

  To See the Dream ch. 1 (1957)

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• Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Golf, Men, Sin

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• We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Dwelling Place, Cells

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Evil, Rewards

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

  Henry Miller

  Spring, Study, Crime

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

  Steve Allen

  People, United States, Half

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

  William Jones

  Christian, Men, Vices

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• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Fate, Suffering, Hinduism

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• We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

  Paul Goodman

  Pain, Blessing, Intelligent

  "Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 71-72), 1956.

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• Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Suffering And Death, People

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• Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

  Charles Mackay

  Desperate, Individual, Sooner Or Later

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.67

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• Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Running, Stress

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion who have handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the firstborn of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the firstborn of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.

  Bob Marshall

  Christian, Children, Animal

  "Va. delegate says reports on abortion comments were 'unfair'" by Fredrick Kunkle, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2010.

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• In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.

  Bob Marshall

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

  Seth

  Karma, Taken, Ignorance

  "The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42 : 11/26/63-4/8/64" by Seth, Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts, The Early Sessions: Book 8, Session 388, (p. 158), 1997.

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• The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

  John Adams

  Mean, Government, Perfect

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• The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

  Voltaire

  Men, Criminals, Use

  Voltaire (1765). “The philosophical dictionary for the pocket: Written in French by a society of men of letters, and translated into English from the last Geneva edition, corrected by the authors. With notes, ...”, p.212

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• No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

  Don Marquis

  Children, Father, Men

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.55, Anchor

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• After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

  Tip O'Neill

  Fall, Men, Land

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• No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

  William Ellery Channing

  Guilt, Terrible, Prosperous

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “Slavery”, p.60

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• Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

  John Locke

  Law, Balance, Desire

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.28

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• All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

  James Buchanan

  Enemy, Rewards, Hated

  1857 On finally achieving his country's highest political office at the age of 65.

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