Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
William Ernest Hocking

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
Sam Waterston

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.
William Sessions

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
Walter Lang

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
John Howard

This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.
John Doolittle

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
Thomas More

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
Edward Coke

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
Charles T. Russell

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles Evans Hughes

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Elbert Hubbard

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.
Ron Chernow

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha