There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions. — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates. — Israel Adesanya Copy Share Image
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty… — Caryl Chessman Copy Share Image
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“Unaweza kusaliti nchi kwa sababu za kiitikadi, kisiasa, matatizo ya akili, au pesa. Ukifanya hivyo na ukabainika; utawajibika kwa adhabu ya kifo,… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.] — Horace Copy Share Image
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I knew whatever punishment the grand duke was going to face, mine would most likely be worse.” — Robin Bridges Copy Share Image
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The world is the court of God. The criminal is God; the punisher is God; man serves the sentence. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Divorce is an expensive punishment love gets when it fails” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image