Quotes on Punishment

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Author: William Brennan

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Author: Tony Campolo

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Author: Barbara Deming

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Author: Matthew Henry

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Author: George Herbert

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

Author: Lionel Jospin

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Author: Isidore Lautreamont

Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it.

Author: Alicia Lieberman

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Author: James Madison

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Author: Bill Maher

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Author: Jayne Mansfield

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Author: Bill McCollum

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

Author: Aaron Neville

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Author: P. O'Rourke

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Author: Francis Quarles

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Author: Samuel Richardson

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

Author: Lucius Seneca

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

Author: George Shaw

Let's not talk punishment.

Author: George Steinbrenner

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

Author: Tom Tancredo