Punished Quotes

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

Person, Law, Guilty

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

Unless, Sound, Large

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard

I'll probably be punished for hard living.
Tupac Shakur

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
David Millar

Mistakes, Human, Chance

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

Unless, Sound, Large

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Elbert Hubbard

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

Clever, Tyrants

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Person, Themselves, Subject

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard

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

Happiness, Seek

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

Ignorance, Law, Lawyers

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior

Anger, Heart, Hard

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.
Heath Ledger

Good, Goal, Season

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome

Men, Enough, Poor

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
Hugh Leonard

Said, Once, Somebody

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
David Baldacci

Justice, Injustice, Lawyer

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
James Buchan

Children, Royal, Errors

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.
William Hague

Children, Bit, Month

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Natan Sharansky

Fear, Society, Someone

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.
Margaret Cho

Trying, Away, Reflection

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
Jerry Lewis

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
Kevin Mitnick

Crime, Argument, Fit

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
Dennis Rodman

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
George Mason

Next, Nations, Rewarded

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
David Axelrod

Forward, Moving, Same

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
Richard Stallman

Same, Deserve, Creating

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