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Punished Quotes

Milan Kundera quote: "punishing people who don't know what they've done is barbaric"..."
punishing people who don't know what they've done is barbaric" forgive them for know not what they do Milan Kundera
Elizabeth Fry quote: "Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform..."
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. Elizabeth Fry
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. Thomas Szasz
Barbara Deming quote: "Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. Barbara Deming
Ross Perot quote: "Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people..."
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. Ross Perot
George Herbert quote: "Punishment is lame, but it comes."
Punishment is lame, but it comes. George Herbert
Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks. John Yoo
John Ruskin quote: "Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in..."
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. John Ruskin
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. Bruno Bettelheim
Bill Bennett quote: "Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to..."
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. Bill Bennett
Saint Augustine quote: "Punishment is justice for the unjust."
Punishment is justice for the unjust. Saint Augustine
Female knowledge of objectification usually stops at a necessary but superficial understanding: beauty is rewarded and lack of beauty is punished. The punishments are understood as personal misfortune; they are not seem as systematic, institutional, or historical. Women do not understand that they are also punished through sexual use for being beautiful; and women do not understand the lengths to which men go to protect themselves and their society from contamination by ugly women who do not... Andrea Dworkin
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I... Joseph Ratzinger
What else? I also believe that if someone comes up behind you on the freeway and flashes their lights to get you to move into the slow lane, they deserve whatever punishment you dole out to them. I promptly slow down and drive at the same speed as the car beside me so that I can punish Speed Racer for his impertinence. Actually, it’s not the impertinence I’m punishing him for, it’s that he let other people know what he wanted. Speed Racer, my friend, never ever let people know what you... Doug Coupland
But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of punishment that certainly concerns the body itself: rationing of food, sexual deprivation, corporal punishment, solitary confinement … There remains, therefore, a trace of ‘torture’ in the modern mechanisms of criminal justice – a trace that has not been entirely overcome, but which is enveloped, increasingly, by the non-corporal nature of the penal... Michel Foucault

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