Punishment Quotes

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

Bill Bennett

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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Samuel Richardson

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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Kate Mulgrew

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All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

Edwin M. Stanton

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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.

Zac Goldsmith

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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

P. J. O'Rourke

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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Lady Gregory

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The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.

Adam Cohen

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There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski

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All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Evil gains work their punishment.

Sophocles

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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Robert Baden-Powell

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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Jose Bergamin

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We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray.

Cory Booker

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If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.

Antonin Scalia

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If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.

Suzanne Collins

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The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

Richard Cohen

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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Juvenal

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And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

Gregg Easterbrook

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To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Ernest Holmes

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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Ellen Key

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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

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Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

Bernard Hopkins

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