All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
George Mason

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
Hugh Leonard

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
Omar Bongo

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Natan Sharansky

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Gustave Flaubert

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.
Kristen Johnston

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
Dennis Rodman

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
Jerry Lewis

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
Tatum O'Neal

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
Willem Dafoe

I'll probably be punished for hard living.
Tupac Shakur

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
Richard Stallman

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham