Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
Walter Kaufmann

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
Jerzy Kosinski

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
Althea Gibson

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
Richard Attenborough

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
Ric Flair

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

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
David Knopfler

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
Benjamin Tucker

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.
Jessica Hahn

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
Aldrich Ames

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
Edvard Munch

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
L. Neil Smith

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
James Madison

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill Maher

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