What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

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

In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.