Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. — Oliver North Copy Share Image
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment. — Euripides Copy Share Image
How come nobody ever talks about getting the long end of the stick? How can you even tell which end is which? — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
If you have made a mistake unknownly. Although, you doesn't get the punishment. But others surely suffer the punishment of your mistake. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“if a being has sufficient sense of justice and civility to know it has done wrong, knowing it has done wrong is… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti),… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my favorite player was Reggie Jackson - and I never got the opportunity to get an autograph… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis.… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
I know my grandfather drank occasionally socially, what we call "taking a sip." And my father never touched the bottle. He condemned… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“I stood behind the man’s chair, my blade at his throat. “Why do you do it?” I asked, knowing he wouldn’t answer.… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
“I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me. And I had to know. Once again, I crawled away from… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Blessed be the country where force and punishment don\'t have to be employed. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“The worst punishment there is for wanting the wrong thing is getting it.” — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Lope de Vega Copy Share Image
If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today. — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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