What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal… — Sheikh Hasina Copy Share Image
“With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been… — Dimitrije Tucovic Copy Share Image
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent… — Allyson Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
On the one side, I welcome prosecutions of individuals such as Pinochet, and would welcome the indictment, prosecution, and punishment of Kissinger.… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on… — Mark Rice Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I can remember I lost three and a half stone weight loss. It was painful, it was excruciating, it was hell. I… — Gemma Collins Copy Share Image
The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The… — Gerald Kogan Copy Share Image
If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.… — Khalil Gibran 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
