Punishment Quotes | Quotes about Punishment

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Punishment Quote #1

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Punishment Quote #2

- Enquanto a queda dos anjos era uma simples questão de poder; nem mais nem menos do que um trabalhinho de policiamento celestial, o castigo de uma rebelião, uma atitude de dureza pour décourageur les autres. - Quão pouca confiança em Si própria devia, pois, ter esta divindade que não queria que as Suas mais perfeitas criaturas distinguissem o bem do mal; o que reinava pelo terror, exigindo a submissão absoluta até dos Seus colaboradores mais próximos, despachando todos os dissidentes para as Suas ardentes Sibérias, para os gulags do Inferno.
Salman Rushdie
Punishment Quote #3

[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is the temptation of the ethical which, as Zizek has argued, the capitalist system is using in order to protect itself in the wake of the credit crisis - the blame will be put on supposedly pathological individuals, those’ abusing the system’, rather than on the system itself. But the evasion is actually a two step procedure - since structure will often be invoked (either implicitly or openly) precisely at the point when there is the possibility of individuals who belong to the corporate structure being punished. At this point, suddenly, the causes of abuse or atrocity are so systemic, so diffuse, that no individual can be held responsible… But this impasse - it is only individuals that can be held ethically responsible for actions, and yet the cause of these abuses and errors is corporate, systemic - is not only a dissimulation: it precisely indicates what is lacking in capitalism. What agencies are capable of regulating and controlling impersonal structures? How is it possible to chastise a corporate structure? Yes, corporations can legally be treated as individuals - but the problem is that corporations, whilst certainly entities, are not like individual humans, and any analogy between punishing corporations and punishing individuals will therefore necessarily be poor. And it is not as if corporations are the deep-level agents behind everything; they are themselves constrained by/expressions of the ultimate cause-that-is-not-asubject: Capital.
Mark Fisher
Punishment Quote #4

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews?
Iain Pears
Punishment Quote #5

[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 Harris
Punishment Quote #6

A cold heart is its own worst punishment.
Frank McAdam
Punishment Quote #7

A punishment is not self-explanatory. It serves no purpose until the person serving it knows the real reason for being punished.
Amit Pandey
Punishment Quote #8

A slow but steady transformation of deviance has taken place in American society. It has not been a change in behavior as such, but in how behavior is defined. Deviant behaviors that were once defined as immoral, sinful, or criminal have been given medical meanings. Some say that rehabilitation has replaced punishment, but in many cases medical treatments have become a new form of punishment and social control.
Peter Conrad
Punishment Quote #9

A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It’s just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the crimson carpet in the bedroom? It’s not loud or menacing, but it sends a wave of adrenaline crashing through me. You’re on your way!
Felicity Brandon
Punishment Quote #10

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.
George Zebrowski
Punishment Quote #11

All I can feel is your cock inside me, as it slides slowly in and then out
of me. You are powerful and imposing as you begin to pick up the pace.
You have become the centre of my entire universe. You are everything I
can feel, everything I can see, hear and smell; all that I know. This is of
course, exactly how you like it and exactly as it should be.
Felicity Brandon
Punishment Quote #12

All that evening Nell sat alone in her bedroom trembling with curious satisfaction. For punishment Eva had been sent to her room without supper and Nell sat listening now to the even, steady sobs far off down the hall. It was dark and on the river shore a night bird tried its note cautiously against the silence. Down in the pantry, the dishes done, Suse and Jessie, dark as night itself, drank coffee by the great stove and mumbled over stories of the old times before the War. Nell fetched her smelling salts and sniffed the frosted stopper of the flowered bottle till the trembling stopped. (Where The Woodbine Twineth)
Davis Grubb
Punishment Quote #13

All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would. That's what parents were for.
Marcha A. Fox
Punishment Quote #14

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
Criss Jami
Punishment Quote #15

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce
Punishment Quote #16

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Herman Melville
Punishment Quote #17

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
Kahlil Gibran
Punishment Quote #18

And in the sin of wanting
always to be right, the punishment
is knowing it isn't possible.
Jennifer Clarvoe
Punishment Quote #19

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
Jacqueline Carey
Punishment Quote #20

And we began to sing and play,
To lightly dance in rings and faster turn.
No man within that hall could keep his seat
But needs must dance and leap
Against his will.

This was the way we danced them to the door
And sent them on their way into the world
Where they will leap amain
Till they think one kind thought.

from The Dancing of the Lord of Weir
Robin Williamson
Punishment Quote #21

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.
Criss Jami
Punishment Quote #22

Any religion is the product of concrete historical circumstances. That is why the form of any religion, its concepts and principles should be transformed and modernized according to historical circumstances. The opposite side of that view -- scriptural literalism, that is, a belief in the literal truth of sacred texts, which as the revealed word of God have unquestionable authority and can never be changed, promises a dangerous future. As it is known, any religion is a product of ancient or medieval thought, that is why it is not surprising to find there very cruel punishment methods in fashion of that period, for instance, if you disbelieve in God, or religion, you should be murdered, or crucified, or your hands and feet should be cut off on opposite sides and so on, as it is written in the sacred texts. It is not so difficult to predict that any aggressive and narrow-minded man in modern global civilization, half of which are buddhist, or polytheist, or atheist, can hold in scriptural literalism and sincerely believe what is written there. There is no need to mention that which violent crimes he/she can commit on religious base.
Elmar Hussein
Punishment Quote #23

Arch your back, Alisa – show me that gorgeous ass. Show me what belongs to me.”
Your voice is enthralling; an intoxicating sound of pleasure and
authority. I obey willingly, closing my eyes as I do so. I want you to use
me. I need you to take what belongs to you. I spread my legs even further
apart, using the wall to keep me in place and push my glistening pussy out
towards you.
Felicity Brandon
Punishment Quote #24

Are you saying that he deserves to die?' I asked, chilled.
'We all deserve to die,' he answered.
Storm Constantine
Punishment Quote #25

As for the errors I make, the only punishment I acknowledge for having made them is my awareness of those errors, and having to live with it: there is, there should be, no heavier penalty on a person's soul, mind and heart.
Joumana Haddad
Punishment Quote #26

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.
Catherynne M. Valente
Punishment Quote #27

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.
Allan Dare Pearce
Punishment Quote #28

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan
Punishment Quote #29

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Punishment Quote #30

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!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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