I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Societies have debated the severity of punishment for vile acts over millennia, with complex moral arguments on both sides of the question. But citizens and society should pay more attention to the trend of over-criminalisation of common human failings and frailties.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this at this time, you kind of get punishment for that. Now you're in the NFL, and you have to do it on your own.

Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.

Let's not talk punishment.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.

Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward - but a big punishment if you fail.

My body is durable, my body is able to withstand a lot of practices, a lot of punishment.