There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor… — Bram Fischer 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
I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned… — William Greider Copy Share Image
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of challenging conversations as a parent and it's never easy. I think the main thing is trying to… — Archie Manning Copy Share Image
