To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the punishment is not so much for the punished as it is for the person who metes it out. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Capital Punishment is simply the disposal of a defective product. Nothing more and nothing less.” — Robert M. Roberts Copy Share Image
Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment? — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention. — Roy Hattersley Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe,… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount… — William Landay Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Whether Iranians are drinking wine in the evening or painting something "offensive," they choose not to dwell on the fact that they… — Azadeh Moaveni 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
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — 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 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
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
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
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Do not ever make fun of fat people, their life is nothing less than a punishment. — Mohd Aariff Khan Copy Share Image
Love cannot be turned on as a reward. It cannot be turned off as a punishment. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
