Punishment Quotes - Page 36

• Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

  Albert Pierrepoint

  Revenge, Views, Capital Punishment

  Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”

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• We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

  Philip Yancey

  Wrath, Serving God, God's Love

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.363, Hachette UK

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• Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

  Michelle Alexander

  Government, Tools, Use

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.7, The New Press

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• Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?

  Dana Gioia

  Catholic, Dumb, Soul

  "The Catholic Writer Today". www.firstthings.com. December 2013.

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• Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Festivals, Ancient, Cruelty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arlie J. Hoover (1994). “Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought”, Praeger Publishers

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• I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teacher, Strong, Children

  News Conference 56, May 22, 1963.

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• Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Wife, Infidelity

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• Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Doe, Crime, Disgrace

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.

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• The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Plot, Prison, Guilty

  "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.

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• If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Islam, Today, Ifs

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• Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them - even though they exaggerated this issue - he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Mean, Hands, Issues

  “Washington’s Muslim Brotherhood dilemma” by Michael W. Smith, www.foxnews.com. August 24, 2012.

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• May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

  Pope John Paul II

  Country, World, May

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• While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  War, Exercise, Diversity

  "War and Capital Punishment" by Jimmy Akin, www.catholic.com. March 2, 2005.

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• The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to most of us whose idea of personal risk is largely ego-related or emotional.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Emotional, Ideas

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, Government, Sea

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• AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jumping, Wrath, Sea

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which is equitable and good it is for them to direct their own movements, to seek in the their conscience reasons for their actions, and to perform them simply, without either fearing punishment or looking for reward.

  Elisee Reclus

  Rewards, Movement, Moral

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• The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.

  Richard G. Scott

  Past, Choices, Desire

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• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

  Tom Clancy

  Sex, Taken, Mean

  "Executive Orders". Book by Tom Clancy, p. 613, 1996.

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• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Doe, Needs, Literature

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press

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• To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

  Frederic Manning

  Missing, Half, Crime

  Frederic Manning (2007). “The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

  Banksy

  Believe, Should, Shots

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Demise, Hell

  George Berkeley (1843). “Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.461

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• I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

  Edvard Munch

  Children, Artist, Afterlife

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