“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. — Andre Gide 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
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. — John Bercow Copy Share Image
Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. — Marshall Rose Copy Share Image
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never… — Charles Spurgeon 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
More often than not, punishment for hazing on college campuses goes only as far as administrative investigations and student expulsions, if not… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image