Punishment Quotes - Page 8

• An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Unjust, Forgotten

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1997). “The Blue Flower”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Abortion, Kind

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• As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Population, Demon

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance. There is more at work than stupidity and a flight from responsibility on the part of educators, parents and politicians who maintain these laws, there is also the growing sentiment that young people constitute a threat to adults and that the only way to deal with them is to subject them to mind-crushing punishment.

  Henry Giroux

  Crush, Girl, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Racism, Crow, Suffering

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations on the atonement that Christ could have offered up a perfect act of penitence instead of punishment, and that this would have been an acceptable offering suitable to remit our sinfulness.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Reading, Offering, Views

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Brother, Stuff, Psychological

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Understanding, Tower Of Babel, Towers

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

  Kofi Annan

  School, Complaining, Done

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• I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Eye, Thinking, Deserve You

  Source: medium.com

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• I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Holocaust, Machines

  Source: collider.com

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• It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

  Margaret Atwood

  Cities, Oil, Interesting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the United States within the UN prevents implementation. At the same time, several African leaders are being prosecuted for their crimes against humanity and participation in genocide: a double standard of sorts, given the impunity accorded to the West and Israel.

  Richard A. Falk

  Israel, Leader, Humanity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I know my grandfather drank occasionally socially, what we call "taking a sip." And my father never touched the bottle. He condemned my grandfather for doing that, and his punishment to his father was when my grandfather came to visit him from Georgia, he would not allow my grandfather to preach in his church.Even though my classmates very often drank alcohol in my presence and they would try and get me to join in, I felt, no, I didn't need that.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Alcohol, Church

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

  Gordon Allport

  Loyalty, Bitter, Sometimes

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• This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

  Adolf Hitler

  Games, Roles, Beloved

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Merit

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• We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

  Zig Ziglar

  Differences, Discipline, Needs

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• The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
  punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation
  of the hands.

  L. M. Boyd

  Doctors, Hands, Amputation

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• The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that the climate almost always changes for the worse, and only rarely for the better - God's punishment for sinful behavior.

  Hans von Storch

  Past, People, Climate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dog, Horse, Kings

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• Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.

  Don Feder

  Killers, Way, Moral

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• If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

  Lars von Trier

  Might, Welcome, Kind

  "If Anyone Would Like To Hit Me, They Are Welcome". Interview with Rüdiger Sturm, www.spiegel.de. May 20, 2011.

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