Top 100 Quotes About Punished
#1. There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.
Benjamin Moser
#2. My friends need to be punished.
Lil' O
#3. To those who wish to punish others
or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands
the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.
Steve Allen
#4. The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions about the shallowness of our own spirituality, theology and ethics. Do we not want to see wrongdoers put down and punished? One
John E. Goldingay
#5. After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag - the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.
David Levering Lewis
#6. To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
Charles Taze Russell
#7. Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
Boyd K. Packer
#8. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.
J.K. Rowling
#9. And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?
Naomi Novik
#10. He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.
David Haye
#11. Do not be downhearted because of scandals in the Church. Jesus Himself warned that scandals would come, and that the wicked would be judged and punished. We should rest in His promise. We should rest in His one true Church, even if within the Church we find much unrest.
Scott Hahn
#12. True education will shape your life, but if you ignore education you will be punished by your life.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Why grace was disparaged and redemption faced judgment? Why vice was rewarded and virtue punished?
Nandini Sahu
#14. She wanted to be physically punished now, and his hands were the safest place to become an object to be used.
Debra Anastasia
#15. I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
Elizabeth I
#16. This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.
John Doolittle
#18. If you believe Karma, believe that you are looked at by an eternal. What is logical in saying to be punished for something same you did it to others?
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#19. Punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.
Gloria Steinem
#20. It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
Paracelsus
#21. Whenever the cadaverous Home Office security supervisor became involved in their affairs, babies cried, women cowered, innocence was punished and blame was wrongly apportioned.
Christopher Fowler
#22. Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream' is going crazy.
R.D. Laing
#23. Criticism is perhaps the citizen's primary weapon in the exercise of her legitimacy. That is why, in the corporatist society, conformism, loyalty and silence are so admired and rewarded; why criticism is so punished or marginalized. Who has not experienced this conflict?
John Ralston Saul
#24. Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.
David Kwang-sun Suh
#25. Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard
#26. Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So
Umberto Eco
#27. A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.
Patrick Lencioni
#28. Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting -based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
Warren Buffett
#29. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.
Sophocles
#30. If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#31. Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood.
Diane Duane
#32. I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.
Joyce Carol Oates
#33. Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.
Daniel Kahneman
#34. Neither he nor Annabel did anything wrong. To see someone you love so horribly punished and tortured - to think they'd abandoned you only to find out that you abandoned them - " She shuddered. "I
Cassandra Clare
#35. I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.
Jim Norton
#36. It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
#37. It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.
Glenn Greenwald
#38. The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security
Milan Kundera
#39. Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
David Novak
#40. No matter how senior an official is, if he violates party discipline and the law of the country, he will be seriously dealt with and punished.
Li Keqiang
#41. I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.
Claire Bidwell Smith
#42. Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#43. Dogs live in the moment, and don't have a concept of past or future. That's why you must immediately correct your dog if it breaks the rules. The old trick of rubbing your puppy's face in his poop or urine is not effective - your dog will have no idea why it is being punished.
Tom Ester
#44. People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson
Doug Casey
#45. Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#46. For some girls, our bodies are not immortal so much as
expendable, we have punished them or wearied
from dragging them around for so long and so we go
wearing the brilliant plumage of the possibly freed
by death.
Connie Voisine
#47. [M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short ... there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.
Joseph De Maistre
#48. Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.
Naomi Wolf
#49. Why doesn't the law permit a man to marry a second woman? A: Because the law says you cannot be punished twice for the same offense.
Various
#50. If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? ... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
Ayn Rand
#51. There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison,
Stephen Harper
#53. I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale.
China Mieville
#54. Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
Thomas More
#55. Conor O'Malley who wants to be punished," Harry said, still stepping back, his eyes on Conor's. "Conor O'Malley who needs to be punished. And why is that, Conor O'Malley? What secrets do you hide that are so terrible?
Patrick Ness
#56. What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.
Tom Coburn
#57. Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.
Mark Haddon
#58. Being angry is to punish oneself for others' mistakes; however, I am not the one who should be punished.
Hsu Tzu
#59. This is the part of the story where we should have been caught, but we weren't. If we'd been found, and punished, I'd probably be telling a different story. A better one? I doubt that. A couple of us would have been spared some pain, but there was no escaping all of it.
Sarah Domet
#60. You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.
Margaret Cho
#61. I'd heard theories. Destruction of forests had altered pressure zones. Global warming made for stronger storms. Chemtrails indicated government manipulation of the weather. God punished the family and neighbors of idolaters.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#62. Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#63. The pattern of praise and punishment is a familiar one throughout history: those who line up in the service of the state are typically praised by the general intellectual community, and those who refuse to line up in service of the state are punished.
Noam Chomsky
#64. Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.
Epictetus
#65. Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.
Dante Alighieri
#66. I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to appreciate his efforts.
Collette West
#67. The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe
Andrew Jackson
#68. The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
Seneca The Younger
#69. Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.
Nora Roberts
#70. I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?
Renita D'Silva
#71. For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.
John Calvin
#72. A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.
Thomas Bernhard
#73. The man was a legendary scoundrel. An expert ruiner of young ladies. And he'd never once been punished for it. Perhaps because he was so very good at it. It seemed a shame to punish someone for what was clearly a remarkable skill.
Sarah MacLean
#74. People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#75. As a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
#76. A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
Jean De La Bruyere
#77. Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
Edward Coke
#78. The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.
Kathleen Silber
#79. For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
Adam Johnson
#80. The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.
Jimmy Carter
#81. The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.
Clive Barker
#82. Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.
Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.
And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.
Chris Martenson
#83. He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to be unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of sense.
Michael Thomas Ford
#84. The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.
Mohammed Hanif
#85. You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.
Jean M. Auel
#86. After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.
Edward Snowden
#87. The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#88. There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.
John Boswell
#89. This isn't a game. If you sign on, your body will no longer be your own. Modesty has no place, none whatsoever, in a slave's repertoire. You will do as you're told, when you're told, or be punished. If this isn't something you think you can handle, you'd better face that right now.
Claire Thompson
#90. Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.
Chuck Palahniuk
#91. He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#93. Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.
Terry Goodkind
#94. Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
Imran Khan
#95. To be a butch girl in high school, to be better at masculinity than all the men around you, and then to be punished for it!
Michelle Tea
#96. You need to read some Agatha Christie, man.
Why? Am I being punished?
Joe R. Lansdale
#97. Furthermore, even these limited accomplishments should be obtained, Barbauld cautioned, "in a quiet and unobserved manner" for the display of knowledge by a woman is "punished with disgrace."6 Besides, the Monthly Review complained in a 1763 review, "intense thought spoils a lady's features."7
Karen Swallow Prior
#98. Did you ever think" ... "That Keenan didn't fall because he was being punished?" ... "Maybe ... " ... "Just maybe he fell because he was favored.
Cynthia Eden
#99. You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to think of it, in the same frame of mind as those poor Magdalene girls.
David Edelstein
#100. If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.
Chris Crutcher
