Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
“And finally, your punishment WILL be cruel and unusual (no TV or IPad for a week, etc…)” — Jon Ziegler Copy Share Image
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them:… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!” — Denmark Copy Share Image
“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius Copy Share Image
The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course… — Johannes Voet Copy Share Image
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension… — Elisee Reclus Copy Share Image
I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too… — Jeffrey Bell Copy Share Image
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
“I was shocked to read that Lord Ferrers, a Home Office minister, when booked for speeding and presented with a £40 fixed… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
I do not think we should reward murderers by keeping them alive in air conditioned prisons where they are fed everyday. If… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have. Also justice should be the goal of every American.… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?” — Jean Said Makdisi Copy Share Image
I've had a long career with a lot of fights, and I've taken a lot of punishment. — Carlos Condit Copy Share Image
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
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