I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
To live with a mind full of grudges and jealousy, is to bargain to be constantly punished by negative feelings and emotions.
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.