(644 quotes found)
“Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.”
Seneca
“Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.”
Madonna
“Vices are their own punishment”
Aesop
“The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men”
Plato
“AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.”
Marquis De Sade
“AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals”
Jerry Falwell
“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”
Saint Augustine
“The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.”
Geoffrey Fisher
“This punishment is not boring and pointless”
Nancy Cartwright
