Bill O'Reilly Quotes

Every punishment is based, not on logic or the feeling of justice, but on the desire to wish evil on those who have done evil to you or to another person…. Everything about our present system of punishments and about all criminal law will be thought of by future generations in the same way that we think of cannibalism or human sacrifice to the pagan gods. “How did they not see the uselessness and cruelty of those things which they did?” our descendants will say about us.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

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 must punish the one who has sinned against real love

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Capital punishment is vindictive – it is vengeful.

Punishment should have a redemptive quality to it.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

If I do bad, shoot me.

If I do bad, shoot me.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

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.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.