Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

“God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good.”

— William R. Bowen

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

“Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by…

— Scotty Smith

It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who…

— Sallust

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

— Leonardo da Vinci

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

— Seth Shostak

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

— Vida Dutton Scudder

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for…

— Lionel Barber

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support…

— Amity Shlaes

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's…

— Adolph Gottlieb

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an…

— Anonymous

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's…

— Larry Elder