The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and… — Ely Culbertson 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
The thing about discipline is that people misunderstand the word discipline. People think discipline in the dog world is punishment. Discipline is… — Cesar Millan 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
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my… — Mary Jo Putney 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
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
On the one side, I welcome prosecutions of individuals such as Pinochet, and would welcome the indictment, prosecution, and punishment of Kissinger.… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
