Best Punishment Quotes

Sometimes it’s better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

No one provokes me with impunity.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning’s oatmeal.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

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

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you’re halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

I think capital punishment’s day is done in this country. I don’t think it’s fairly applied.

Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.