I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
Charlie Trotter
CollegeIdiotCrimePunishmentRight
There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
Bill McCollum
PunishmentNeedOutStreetsCriminal
It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was ratified by the United Nations in 1948 that Lemkin's proposed law was given at least the appearance of force and effect.
Terry Glavin
LawPreventionAppearancePunishment
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
LiarBelievePunishmentCannotHe
If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
Cass Sunstein
FuturePeopleWantPunishmentMore
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben Jonson
MindPunishmentViceDelightFury
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
PunishmentMartyrCauseMakes
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
DeathGovernmentLyingPunishment
I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
PunishmentTakeSport
I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.
Joe Gilgun
SchoolMeBadActingPunishmentKid
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide
HellPunishmentOverBeginLeft
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
TomorrowPeopleMatterPunishment
I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.
Rob Van Dam
FightKnowRingPunishmentSecret
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
SinPunishmentFirstConscience
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster
LossEncouragementRewardPunishment
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
Corrine Brown
DoctorCrimePunishmentCompanyHarm
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Antonin Scalia
FutureDeathChairPunishmentMean
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
VengeancePunishmentCallJustDoes
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
Richard Attenborough
LifeI AmMy LifePunishmentBeen
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
Kevin Mitnick
ArgumentCrimePunishmentBeenFit
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
SonDaughterYouthYearPunishment
Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
Essie Davis
ViewPoint Of ViewPunishmentPoint
Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment.
Ella Woodward
EatingHealthyPunishmentSupposed
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
Charlize Theron
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