Quotes: Punishment

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don’t regret he played for that period.

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

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It’s based on capital punishment.

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.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.