Punishment Quotes

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
Aaron Neville

Able, Knew, Sing

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
Gil Gerard

Son, Old, Youth

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming

Cannot, Break, Spirits

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley

Thought, Hell, Head

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

Life, Capital, Opposed

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

Life, Made, Suffering

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Ida B. Wells

Woman, Small, Moment

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
Ida B. Wells

Work, Time, Justice

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Alcee Hastings

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Steve Allen

Tomorrow, Old, Matter

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
Helen Garner

Book, Thoughts, Decisions

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

College, Until, Longer

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
David Gill

Regret, Honest, Mistake

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch

Life, Society, Human

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.
Charles S. Dutton

Mean, Anybody, Films

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri

Crime, Disgrace, Consist

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
Billy Strayhorn

Love, Wife, Road

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.
Bill Bennett

Society, Rest, Message

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
Joseph Howe

Power, After, Able

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.
Ron Rash

Time, Book, Made

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
Lionel Jospin

Suppressed, Capital

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Geoffrey Fisher

Long, Anyone, Unfair

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.
Ronnie Milsap

Life, God, Mother

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
Salvatore J. Cordileone

Marriage, Legal, Through

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
Kate Mulgrew

Execution, Barbaric

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
Eli Khamarov

Poverty, Crime, Commit

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

Help, Game, Made

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
William J. Brennan

Death, Pain, Purpose

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
William J. Brennan

Same, Less, Achieve

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
Bram Fischer

Fear, Wish, Might

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