Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
I do not believe having a baby is punishment.
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?
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.
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.