Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it… — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to… — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Copy Share Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Do you think that the punishment for our sins was to die on the cross? If that was the case the two… — Frederick K. C. Price Copy Share Image
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us… More over, when we have repented, He instantly… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“With each impact you tell me that my body belongs to you; that I am yours to use, yours to punish and… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“All that evening Nell sat alone in her bedroom trembling with curious satisfaction. For punishment Eva had been sent to her room… — Davis Grubb Copy Share Image
Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgemental’ is ill thought of… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment. — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
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