Punishment Quotes
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'
Paul Auster
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
Oscar Wilde
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson
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A parallel to this system of punishment is the trauma caused by enforced unemployment in capitalist society. Add to this an inability for the unemployed to find any imaginable alternative occupation, and the extent of the effects of network exclusion becomes clear.
Alexander Bard
Army of Lovers
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's a tough week because you're guilty until proven innocent, and it's a daunting task a bit. But they've done a phenomenal job being able to sell, 'We're OK.' The biggest punishment for us at Minnesota was the unspoken and people speculating from the death penalty on down.
Dan Monson
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The only thing more alarming that what is in that cave will be your punishment if we somehow survive.
Brandon Mull
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Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because 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
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
Soren Kierkegaard
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi