- Nov 07, 2020
Punishment Quotes
Lines on rules, consequences, and disgrace.
This set looks at punishment as the natural companion to rules: once rules exist, breaking them invites consequences. One quote draws a sharper distinction, arguing that shame comes from the wrongdoing itself rather than from what follows it. See related themes in our Crime quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting the police involved or levying an absurd punishment just because that's what some zero-tolerance rule mandates - even though it's clear that the student in question wasn't a danger - doesn't make anyone safer. Worse, it can actually cause harm.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.
- Grave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020