Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“I want you to understand me. This isn’t vengeance. This is punishment.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls. — Tip O'Neill Copy Share Image
“It is as if she is punishing everyone who has ever done her wrong through her punishment of me.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“When you perform too well, you get punished by winning. This feeling is transitory, and after the celebration is over, all you… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it,… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
When we feel that we are unfairly punished or we are being taken advantage of, we have to remember this. There is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
“All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Societies have debated the severity of punishment for vile acts over millennia, with complex moral arguments on both sides of the question.… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,… — William Jones Copy Share Image
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the… — Sidney Hatch Copy Share Image
The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each… — Faxian Copy Share Image
“So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad… — Rebecca Eanes Copy Share Image
No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked… — Nabokov i Tyrants Destroyed i Copy Share Image
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury… — Plato Copy Share Image