Punish Criminals Quotes & Sayings

the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license, — Fulton J. Sheen

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. — Allen Tucker

I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or herself as the case may be. I have waited long enough. So the time has come, and I declare myself the executioner. The three criminals are hereby sentenced to death. By fire. By earth. By water. — Jay Bennett

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? — Thomas Mann

That's my theory: immediate electrocution of all ignorant and dirty people. I'm all for the criminals - give color to life. Trouble is if you started to punish ignorance you'd have to begin in the first families, then you could take up the moving-picture people, and finally Congress and the clergy. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood. — George Takei

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. — Karl A. Menninger

Miami drivers have long ago take the simple chore of going from one place to another and turned it into a kind of high-speed, heavily armed game of high-stakes bumper cars. — Jeff Lindsay

I love comedy. God has given me this platform. — Jeff Foxworthy

A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals, — Christopher Dodd

Money has no religion except itself. — Louis De Bernieres

The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin? — Philo

To understand Jesus when he stated that he was the way, the truth and the life, one must first recognize his manner of a walk and believe firmly that his manner is true. — The Tru Sum

Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals? — George Gordon Byron

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime? — Marquis De Sade

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much. — Mike Ditka

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way. — Pope Francis

We don't punish criminals in our enlightened age, we cure 'em; and the cure is worse than punishment. — Alfred Bester

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile. — Deepak Chopra

I Believe The Failure To Punish Wall Street Criminals Is The Core Cause Of Our Sick Economy. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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