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Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Daniel didn't have to shoulder his punishment alone anymore. It was something they could do together.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

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

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

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

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

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

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

Fear is what activates your tools; your jab, your movement, your speed, your ability to absorb punishment.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

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

I think the NFL needs a more stringent policy when it comes to domestic violence. Make the punishment work.

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

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