Quotes about Punishment

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

Imagine going to book a flight and the agent politely pauses, looks up at you, and says that you are blacklisted. Your "social credit" score shows that you have been doing some things that don't sit well with the government. You are being punished, and part of the punishment is that you can't travel out of the country to visit relatives in America. You're shocked. You haven't even gotten a traffic ticket before. "There must be some mistake,

a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

As long as a man is still motivated either by the fear of punishment or by the hope of reward—or, for that matter, by the wish to appease the superego—conscience has not had its say as yet.

Ah!" returned the man, with a relish; "he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters. That's the sentence.

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.

Oh woman, God beloved in old Jerusalem! The best among us need deal lightly with thy faults, if only for the punishment thy nature will endure, in bearing heavy evidence against us, on the Day of Judgment!