That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every punishment from God is pure justice and every blessing from Him is pure grace. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“He tossed a helmet to me and said, “Please, no screaming this time.” “I’m making no promises Williams’.” He chuckled. “I’ll probably… — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this… — Patrick Mahomes Copy Share Image
I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty… — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
You cannot blame and Punish yourself for every problem in your life. — Yashwardhan Pauranik Copy Share Image
Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country! — Godfrey Copy Share Image
Teenagers are obviously God's punishment for having sex in the first place. — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
