164 Punishment Quotes for You to Enjoy

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. Penn Jillette

Hope Religion Fear Reward Punishment Threats Morality Morally Because Behaving Bribery Humans Need

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nature Fault Punishment Only Proportion Knows How Justly Deserves

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed. Pete Rose

Grateful Nation Live Believe Changed Punishment Ours Both Individual He Wrongdoing Most Judges How Am Fit Done Where Should

Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a punishment, not a drink. Peter Hitchens

Punishment Give Drink Prisoners Go Used Milk

Just vengeance does not call for punishment. Pierre Corneille

Punishment Vengeance Call Does Just

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people. Pope Benedict XVI

Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses. Rashida Tlaib

Immigration Result National Lost Punishment Immigration Reform Would Minor Detention Examination Excessive Proposed Over Most Quarrel Reform Any Deportation Measures

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. Reid Hoffman

Death Time Legal Trials Year Other Penalty Punishment More Potential Consume Almost House Execution Judges Death Penalty Than Expensive Where Public Personnel Much Each Twice Each Year Row Defenders

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified. Reza Aslan

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I've always been tough my whole life. I'm able to take a lot of punishment, and that might be an even greater asset than my offense. I'm the guy that can take your best shot, and I'm not going to go down. Rob Van Dam

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin. Ron Chernow

Great Risks People Achieve Crime Sex Market Punishment Seemingly Take Sin Like Without Bull Bull Market Goes Rewards Who

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God. Russell Johnson

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It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity. Russell Smith

Alone Great Crime Paperback Punishment Immersed Statistics Fact Instantly Miss Days Look Narrative Up Human Room Lunacy

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

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make. Ted Cruz

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In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. Teju Cole

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The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize. Thomas Becket

Man Rights Victory Punishment Carried Hath Triumphs Him Off Persecuted Prize Gained Who Awarded Deserved Bonds

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. Tom Tancredo

You Word Punishment See Nobody Wants Deportation Use Here

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons. Trey Gowdy

Government Legal People Police Punishment Cases Police Officers Issue Impose Ultimate Officers Shoot Whether Capital Fleeing Standpoint

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

Crime Consist Punishment Does Disgrace

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. Wilhelm Frick

Legal Duty Think Earned Punishment Carried Out Moral Thousands Moral Duty Only Tens Tens Of Thousands Because Been German Imprisoned Officials Duties Dutiful Just Little Fulfillment Who Now

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence. William Bratton

Crime Gun Punishment Which Certainty Violence

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