Punishment Quotes - Page 40

• It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Real, Deceit

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.145, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Moving On, Years, Two

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• Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Wife, Subjects

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• Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Missing, Purpose

  "The Normal Christian Life".

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• Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

  Samuel Richardson

  Children, Shame

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• When I step foot to my locker and change shoes for training, its like turning on a switch. I become a creature. Not a human. I look to tear apart anyone and everyone in my way to hugeness and I don't care how I do it. I can feel my heart start jumping and my body start saying "beat me into the ground like a red-headed step child. I want punishment" I WANT TO BE A FREAK, A FREAK I TELL YOU!!

  Jason Bennett

  Badass, Children, Heart

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• And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

  David Platt

  Sin, Guilty, Follow Me

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.31, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Two, Holocaust, Principles

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• What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

  H. L. Mencken

  May, Morality, Sense Of Humor

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• The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

  Edward Bond

  Literature, Empires, Bores

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• To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Challenges, Sorrow

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.115, A&C Black

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• He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Party, Self, Principles

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• There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you suffer like in any other sport. Suffering euphoria comes when the opponent blunders in a winning position, but it is undeserved.

  Lubomir Kavalek

  Sports, Winning, Mind

  "Joys of Chess: From Krabbé to Hesse" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Guilt

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• I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Rewards

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• Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Fun, Eating

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• The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

  Ernst Junger

  Judging, Guilt, Ranking

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• Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  School, Past, Government

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• To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Two, Prison, Certain

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.93

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• He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Giving, Judging

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• Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  World, Prison, Individual

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

  John Milton

  Art, Lying, Government

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Order, Choices

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

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• Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Party, Men, Prison

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