536 Quotes About Punishment

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me.

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!

It is unfair to us and now we are one of the smallest teams in double-A. Other schools have been recruiting and we see it as a punishment because of other schools.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.