When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: gods punishment reward prayers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. —Stanislaw J. Lec More about this quote Tags: life death punishment reward Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No good deed goes unpunished. —Clare Booth Luce More about this quote Tags: good punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. —R. D. Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: nature consequences punishment reward Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: writing escape art punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, failure, misfortune — all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: justice poverty crime logic punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: society evil good punishment isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. —Eli Khamarov More about this quote Tags: poverty crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As one reads history . . . one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: history crime cruelty punishment community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty. —Michel Foucault More about this quote Tags: justice morality crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself. —Ann Aguirre in Aftermath More about this quote Tags: loss punishment self-flagellation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. —Bill Maher More about this quote Tags: punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem. —Jeph Jacques More about this quote Tags: self-esteem punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email