To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.
It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.
Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its 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.
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.