- Everyone
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- 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
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
- Hardened
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Empire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward - but a big punishment if you fail.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a Secret Service agent, I have an obligation not to disclose personal conversations and security details. But that doesn't prevent me from speaking generally about foundational principles and the system of patronage and punishment I saw in the Obama administration.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020