Punishment Quotes - Page 37

• No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

  William James

  Political, Politics, Should

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.293, Courier Corporation

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• How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible..... There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

  John Ruskin

  Stars, Men, Sea

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

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• As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Community, Political, Wicked

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Lying, Passion

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• If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Animal, Self

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• It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

  Colin Greenwood

  Passion, Men, Domestic Violence

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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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