Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Orrin Hatch

Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt.

Anne O'hare Mccormick

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.

Ellen Key

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

George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

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

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero

He held his opponent to the fence, threw leg kicks, knees to the head, and punches. It was three minutes of punishment and that's when the referee stopped the fight.

Cuki Alvarez

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Robert Ingersoll

Anything that assists us, all the better. I look at videos after matches and I can look at all sorts of camera angles and see that a player has committed an offence, so retrospective punishment would be a good way of policing the game.

Keith Hackett

I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

Genghis Khan

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

Joseph Howe

Having a cigarette on a freezing cold day was like a punishment. Standing outside with wind and snow blowing in your face is somewhat of a deterrent.

Julie Stone

Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

Gary Ryan Blair

Most offenders will comply. They realize that they face strict punishment if they are found in violation.

Robert Ley

Royal Caribbean's crimes -- including dumping oil into our oceans, lying about it and trying to cover it up by obstructing justice -- are serious offenses that require serious punishment.

Lois Schiffer

There were no injuries, the operation of the flight itself was not disturbed, so we feel this is an appropriate punishment.

David Procopio

He's a tough guy. He had to be with all the punishment he was taking.

Brandon Johnson

We don't look at our juvenile system as a punishment system.

Deborah Carley

The defendant has convincingly been proven guilty of participating in a criminal act of corruption that caused the state to suffer financial losses. The punishment is five years.

Cicut Sutiarso

The bottom line is, I am against capital punishment, despite my understanding of the visceral attraction it has for most Americans.

Scott Turow

Punishment, and we don't really need that.

Barbara Kerr

Now the commissioner, on his own, is announcing a new punishment, and that would be an additional punishment to what the law provides for.

Gerald Lefcourt

It's not necessarily punishment. It's a wake-up call. We have to get back to Kentucky basketball.

Bobby Perry

People can exchange notes with him if they want, but I don't think it really adds anything. The question is whether he deserves the punishment he was sentenced to, and I don't find much enlightening in these discussions.

Kent Scheidegger

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

John Calvin

We must continue to follow the policy of being both strict and lenient according to the actual situation of the cases, and show leniency to the convicts who only committed minor offences or merited milder punishment and even exemption of punishment.

Xiao Yang

If you do something to this degree, then you deserve to face the punishment for it. Resigning is just the easy way out. It may give us a reputation where you can't trust anyone here. You never know what's going on.

Patricia Brown

It?s almost a double punishment. You lose six people that are so close, and then you might lose the community that brought you all together in the first place.

Travis Webb

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero

I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the new leader in Canada they're going to cut us some slack. People from the US are going to realize for the first time where Ottawa is and that it's the Capital of Canada.

Connie Adams

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jerry Falwell

My understanding of God does not permit me to accept that every bad or good thing that occurs is a reward or punishment. There are times when bad things happen to good people, ... We need consolation, not anger; love, not hate. The God I serve and pray to daily has charged me not to blame but to help.

Jerome Epstein

The punishment doesn't fit the crime. I've done everything I can to get him out, or at least get him a fairer trial.

Carly Simon

Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment.

Elie Wiesel

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I wasn't planning on doing that, but something said 'flip,' and I flipped, ... It wasn't a good thing to do, and it cost us. I'll apologize to the whole team Monday and take whatever punishment the coach has to give me.

Robert Mason

That's a hell of a punishment! He gave you three days off ...

Bob Simon

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hosea Ballou

It's not a matter of punishment or revenge, but closure. We'd like to put an end to this, and learn why it happened.

Karthi Vadivelu

Whereas the well-functioning executive encourages the best in brains and skills, the one who is paranoid or even less morbidly insecure must have inadequates about him, men who will take punishment.

Dr. Francis J. Braceland

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

Mathew Henry

We don't feel the punishment approach is just and we don't believe it works. We are asking for a path to full legalization to allow immigrants to participate in this country without fear.

Felicia Martinez

Our prayer is that it will not only be a presidential humanitarian act, but that Congress itself would abolish capital punishment by legislative act.

Archbishop Angel Lagdameo

I don't find the punishment fit the crime.

Darcy Tucker

It was a punishment vote against the current government, which has done nothing to improve the living conditions of Colombians.

Horacio Serpa

Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The vast majority of Americans pay their taxes even though a small, tiny fraction of them will ever get audited. That's because the punishment for not paying your taxes is jail.

John Keeley

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph Marie De Maistre

In the corrupt court there is no possibility to dream or to make contact to love. They are exiled to the forest as a punishment (but) this punishment turns out to be a gift. The gift of being in a place where there is no time.

Dean Gilmour

It's more like a punishment for failing, rather than encouraging the students to improve themselves.

Rep. Dave Heaton

When a person has a serious illness, the focus needs to be on treatment, not punishment. It does no good to put them behind bars.

Linda Collins

We seek no congressional punishment for a man who chose to cheat on his wife, ... for a president who chose to cheat the law.

James Rogan

We're just glad this is over. That's the biggest thing right now. We know what the punishment is and we're ready to move on.

Larry Andrews

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan

The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is five years.

Cicut Sutiarso

We did not write any punishment or punitive damages into the policy. Hopefully, we won't have to do that.

Donnell Barton

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

It contains a barely veiled threat of collective punishment. Making such a threat is a violation of the Geneva conventions and other laws of war.

Sam Zarifi

I couldn't understand that. I didn't know why we were going to get extra punishment.

Pierce Cook

I basically took it as a challenge and not punishment.

Archie Miaway

For something as dramatic as that act, the punishment in no way fits the crime. I'd say historically we've done a horrible job of addressing juvenile crime, which is why these young people are growing up to become adult offenders.

Ross Mirkarimi

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

If there is any lingering doubt, life without parole is the punishment.

Michael Idiart

I teach about war, murder, capital punishment, sex and marriage, homosexuality, the environment -- who isn't interested about this stuff?

Prof. Charles Mathewes

We definitely deserved punishment. We didn't deserve what was essentially the death penalty.

Steve Rodriguez

I made a mistake and he's recognized that. He's told me you can't make any more mistakes as far as outside of football goes because he said he will have to enforce some kind of punishment.

Steve Wichman

He feels terrible about it. To be honest, he is serving a pretty harsh punishment for what happened.

Kent Waryan

It's our intent to give him a fair trial. It is also our intent to file to seek capital punishment. We will file that document tomorrow.

Bill Douglas

God grants life, and God should take it away. [Do] horrible, heinous things deserve incredible punishment? You bet.

Tim Kaine

Perhaps now he will finally get the punishment that a jury unanimously agreed he deserved.

Michael Rushford

But China, for the moment, does not have the right conditions for abolishing capital punishment.

Sun Huapu

We had a little incident after Friday's game (against Mount Vernon). My punishment was to do a couple of things and I did them. We had an incident Tuesday (at practice) and (Miller) told me I was done.

Manual Cass

That's not punishment, and that's the problem.

John Sifton

We believe this young man has committed a serious crime deserving of punishment, but not the loss of his life.

Peter Norden

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

George Sand

If they're under the age of 18, they're taken into custody. Normally, what happens is, we'll call the parent or guardian and a juvenile petition against a minor will be filed. The court imposes the punishment.

Lt. Dennis Hill

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Mark Twain

We're interested in compliance, which is what the neighbors seem to want. Some want punishment, but that's not always the best thing.

Charlie Duggan

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Cato The Censor

The measure is too extreme and the punishment too heavy.

Frank Lu

I don't find the punishment fit the crime in Moe Mantha's case.

Darcy Tucker

By reducing the punishment, though the fine has increased, the government is sending the signal: 'Please go ahead and hack'.

Pavan Duggal

It's not a punishment. It's seeking to commit them to treatment, like the Baker Act.

Brian Iten

BIGAMY, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Ambrose Bierce

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

I happen to have a copy of the indictment in my hand right here and I think the indictment has some problems, ... instant punishment as the result of an indictment.

John Carter

The punishment was acknowledged as illegal and our complaint is satisfied.

Natalya Terekhova

He's going to have to get a lot of reps. It's not punishment. It's really a good thing for him.

Steve Loney

Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period.

Mark Keller

We should be alert to the danger that cutting off assistance prior to the formation of a new government might be interpreted by the Palestinians and the Arab world as a punishment for the way the Palestinians voted in January.

Alvaro De Soto

It doesn't surprise me the punishment is so lenient.

Paul Asfour

This case is about a teacher who did something she knew was wrong and she got caught red-handed, ... Her punishment was fair and even her union agreed.

Gregory Miller

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

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The punishment is fierce and immediate. We've had the beginning of a technology bubble. People get worried as soon as there's any kind of shock.

Julien Quistrebert

Let's face it, it's an election year, and ... if you haven't got anything else to go with in South Carolina ... go with crime and punishment.

Neil Thigpen

This criminal deserves the death penalty, the highest punishment, Execution, execution, we demand execution.

Abdul Aziz Hakim

If this law is passed, it might make someone who's drinking excessively to stop and think about the punishment.

Doryce Norwood

Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model of all Muslims, and he was defamed and attacked in an unfair, inaccurate way.

Hussam Ayloush

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

Omar Suleiman

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec

It's embarrassing and distressing for us, but to appeal would have been distracting for the squad so we have decided to take the punishment on the chin.

David Davies

I promise you that we will have a speedy investigation and get the bombers and give them the sternest possible punishment.

K.k. Paul

I regard the fine and the embarrassment Brian has suffered as sufficient punishment.

Ken Conway

We needed to shore up a lot of the fundamentals and the long practice was not a punishment.

Dave Walsh

The appropriate punishment for ... these vicious acts ... will be available in the federal system.

Charles Hynes

I tried to make a teachable moment out of this -- with the school system, with the judge. But that didn't happen. These people were only interested in punishment.

Polly Meerschaert

Our view is that punishment should not be the last resort, that bullying should be punished and bullies must be made to understand the harm they have been doing.

Jacqui Smith

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Gary Becker

Corporal punishment is prohibited, but it's not a blanket policy that prohibits an employee from ever touching a student. There are situations when an employee may have to intervene physically in situations such as student fights.

Sterling Ivey

Previously, Pope John Paul has taken a position on capital punishment . . . and given clear teaching on the value of all human life, not just innocent human life.

Peter Norden

I consider a number of things in determining what I feel is an appropriate punishment in a particular case. In every case I look at whether or not the defendant has a history of trouble and the nature of the charge.

Dan Crawford

If the parents avail themselves to help, then the judge will dismiss the charge and clear their record. However, if they choose to ignore the situation, the punishment becomes harsher.

Jan Drumm

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Ambrose Bierce

I believe it is a relatively harsh punishment for such a young person. It was somewhat harder than I had hoped and believed.

Goran Bergendahl

Not apologetic for what I did, and if given the chance, I'd do the same thing again.... It's just incredibly hard to admit fault, and accept such disproportionate punishment, to an action that probably helped recruit many young kids in town that day.... I feel ashamed to have my close friends die to protect your freedom to complain about how we do our job.

Richard Webb

This was an unbelievable tragedy for the entire family... his grief is immeasurable. There is no greater punishment than that.

David Roth

I believe in punishment. Someone commits a crime, they should be punished. But I also believe in justice.

Delnora Duprey

The main thing behind our agenda is that we've got to have a strong alternative punishment, and that's community corrections.

Lynda Flynt

Public servants are made to sign an acknowledgement of debt and made to pay it back. The punishment is not made bigger than the crime.

Mike Waters

It's really death by incarceration. You're really putting someone to a slow, psychological death, and I think that is really cruel and unusual punishment.

David Levin

This is an experiment that has been forced upon us and I'm grateful it's working. It is cruel and unusual punishment for a family to have the father die over a minute, innocent crime.

Michele Kubby

This is outrageous. This is a grave punishment.

Genrikh Padva

(California) absolutely parallels the national pattern. The United States is the world capital of mixed feelings about capital punishment.

Franklin Zimring

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

Henry George

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Lady Gregory

What I don't like about things like that is that for a wealthy person, the fine is a mere inconvenience. For the poor person, it's a major punishment.

Michael Granof

Personally, I am not satisfied. I think that was a day of democracy, if you will. Personally I really don't think any punishment or consequences should have been there in the first place but like I said, this is just my personal opinion.

Carlos Ramos

An apology to Jason Smith and his family in court does very little to remove the bodily harm and injury that (Elvena) has done to him. A slap on the hand is no punishment for a broken nose.

Karen Smith

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Althea Gibson

This is a longtime employee. The punishment should fit the crime.

Martin Druyan

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

Ambrose Bierce

Regarding those who face the death penalty, I announce that we are changing that punishment and will make (the maximum penalty) life imprisonment.

Gloria Arroyo

The congressman believes capital punishment is a deterrent for all kinds of crimes, including terrorism.

John Carter

There's no real precedent there for collective punishment or commissary funds. Those are going to be a long battle.

Robert Newman

It's a punishment that he's going to have to live with the rest of his life. To me, that's a far greater punishment than whatever games you missed or didn't miss.

George Blaney

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Ambrose Bierce

Many without punishment, none without sin.

John Ray

There are a lot of things I wish I could turn around and say I didn't do, or had found another punishment. I've been going over it in my mind for the last month.

Jon Penfold

This punishment is not boring and pointless.

Nancy Cartwright

They should be able to absorb more punishment if fuel prices go up. If you can eliminate a couple billion of dollars in liabilities, it certainly gives you a leg up on those who haven't done that.

John Pincavage

There was payback from the employee-discount programs at the U.S. Big Three, and a little bit of truck punishment.

Alan Baum

We don't focus on corporal punishment. We focus on teaching and training.

Bill Gothard

The question is, by the time you engage, whether you've built a battleship that can inflict punishment and maybe take a little.

Mark Stephens

It ought to be punishment.

Tom Bruno

We can't get any more expensive, or the punishment will be yet more job losses.

Martin Kannegiesser

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

Aaron Neville

It's sad for Argentina tennis and it's a very tough punishment.

Guillermo Vilas

When I was in school 20 years ago, it wasn't all that important. And if the coach was mad at you, denying you water was something they used as punishment.

John Parks

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Bible

We're protecting offenders from false accusations. … We're not stiff-arming anybody, and it's not an additional punishment.

Mike Stack

We want to know that there are going to be proper and just follow-throughs in terms of punishment for the harasser.

Sen. Pamela Resor

There was a time when the crime itself determined the sentence. It used to be if someone is convicted of premeditated murder, the state said the punishment was death, ... That is no longer the case.

Leonard Sand

There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only educated women believed the woman should not face punishment.

Aytekin Sir

We have not used corporal punishment in our district for many, many years. Since we weren't really doing it, the policy needed to be revised.

Nancy Long

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Geoffrey Fisher

This was a person that proved his dangerousness (to society) over and over and over again. We're very thankful he has been given the punishment that he so richly deserves.

Mary Green

Make exercise a reward, rather than a punishment. Think about how you feel at the end of a run and use that to motivate yourself.

Pete Cohen

Here, homework is not a punishment. They really like coming to homework club. We want it to feel like home.

Amy Campbell

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

Eli Khamarov

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Emanuel Swedenborg

I think it was self-punishment. Her son was dead, and she didn't think she deserved anything because of it.

Elva Farmer

Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that Property is of greater value than life.

Elizabeth Fry

If they have deceived the public into believing I did something I did not do and then went about convicting an innocent man, they should receiv no less punishment then they would impose on me.

Eugene Watts