Justice that love gives is a surrender justice that law gives is a punishment.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather I saw opportunity to train to motivate to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

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.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

There is no greater glory than love nor any great punishment than jealously.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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.

But this will not do God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

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.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long even God.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

In the world at large people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden cause and effect labor and reward are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension then the more gardens in the world the more justice the more sense is created.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.