deserved punishment Quotes

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

no political influence could save a man who deserved punishment and none could win unworthy promotion.

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.