536 Quotes About Punishment

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went then? I will tell you some day how I went! Did I murder the old woman? I murdered myself, not her! I crushed myself once for all, for ever.… But it was the devil that killed that old woman, not I. Enough, enough, Sonia, enough! Let me be!

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

Младите невинаги се подчиняват на разпорежданията, но ако рискуват и постигнат нещо хубаво, понякога избягват наказанието.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.