punishment quotes

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.