Punishment quotations

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◆ The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

- John Lubbock99

◆ Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

- Richelle E. Goodrich99

◆ Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780s was probably punishable by stoning or corsets.

- James Goss99

◆ You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99

◆ But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ But it was not the room's disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

- James Baldwin99

◆ [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

- Frank Harris99

◆ Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.

- Laura Esquivel99

◆ 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.

- Jennifer Birkett99

◆ Of course, if I had misbehaved that day, my dinner was a salad made entirely out of iceberg lettuce, with water on top instead of dressing. It was like cabbage soup without the dignity.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

- Louis Sachar99

◆ A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

- B.F. Skinner99

◆ Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat's back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.

- J.M. Coetzee99

◆ Sometimes silence can be a very powerful tool for making others feel for their mistakes.

- 99