(644 quotes found)
“If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow”
Steve Allen
“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”
Mark Twain
“Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.”
Condoleezza Rice
“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”
Joseph Marie de Maistre
“Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; / That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: / And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.”
Bible
“Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”
Paul Gallico
“Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”
John Ruskin
“Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.”
Dorothy Dix
“Laws undertake to punish only overt acts”
Charles de Montesquieu
