Punishment Quotes - Page 9

• The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Church, Sin, Crime

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• If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be delivered. But it's even worse to offer people a reward, like children, for being good, and to threaten them with punishment if they're not.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Children, Pie

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• You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

  Tony Kushner

  Zero, Drama, Creativity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

  Hannah Arendt

  Criminals, Firsts, Crime

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  Saint Augustine

  Causes, Martyr

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• The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'

  Paul Auster

  Book, Reading, Two

  "The mighty Quinn" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Government, Done, Habit

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• All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Evil, Mischief, Utilitarian

  'Principles of Morals and Legislation' (1789) ch. 13, para. 2

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• To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

  Jose Bergamin

  Forgiveness, Sin, Repentance

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• Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Would Be, Amnesty, States

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.15, University of Georgia Press

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• All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

  Conrad Black

  Rehabilitation, Prison, Retribution

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  God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Race, Justice, Merit

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

  David Cameron

  Law, People, Faces

  "Reaction On The Streets In South London". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org.

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• I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Believe, Heaven

  "Kirk Cameron, From Sitcom Star to Evangelist" by Martin Bashir, abcnews.go.com. March 17, 2006.

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• I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

  Tony Campolo

  Impossible, Sermons, Sermon On The Mount

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• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Rocks, Mountain

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.119, Vintage

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• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Pain, Catholic, Religion

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• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

  Dorothy Dix

  Keeping Secrets, Silence, Soul

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• I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

  Robert Duvall

  Use, Pay, Crime

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• Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

  Clint Eastwood

  Children, Adults, Would Be

  "Gentle man Clint". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

  Brian Eno

  Kindness, Believe, Thinking

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• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Scary

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

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• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

  Baseball, Games, Neat And Tidy

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Leadership

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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