Top Punishment Quotes

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless c...

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

Punishment Definition

(n.) The act of punishing.

(n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

(n.) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of p...

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite's part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I...

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her...

I wouldn't think that God is quite as much concerned with whether or not one actually sins as He is with whether or not in one's heart one genuinely wants to turn from sin; and therefore, continues wo...

Let your personality be your profit and not your punishment.

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceiv...

They send a person who can never stay, she whispered. Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't...

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went then? I will tell you some day how I went! Did I murder the old woman? I murdered myself, not her! I crushe...

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when? he said.I looked at him.He said, her punishment is being her,

Society's revenge matched its fright.