So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and…

“When I see justice sold to the highest bidder I remember Tio Baldo and how he had lost. So honesty then and service are…

— F. Sionil José

“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”

— Jean Said Makdisi

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite…

— Michel de Montaigne

In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which…

— John Quincy Adams

My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment.…

— Roger Rosenblatt

This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about…

— Terre Thaemlitz

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

— John Donne

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is…

— William Shakespeare

“In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment.…

— Leon Trotsky

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the…

— Gene Spafford

Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

— Euripides

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage