Quotes about Punishment

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

In an oligarchy it is necessary to take great care of the poor, and allot them public employments which are gainful; and, if any of the rich insult them, to let their punishment be severer than if they insulted one of their own rank;

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwellIn adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.

Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.