Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you. — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the best punishment, you can give to your loved ones & it is the most painful experience yo can receive… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some… — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of… — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.” “So it was. Now… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a… — Blackie Sherrod Copy Share Image
It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle 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
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and… — Paul Gallico 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
Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would… — Dreezy Copy Share Image
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