There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Had I been the God (of this world), would have punished myself above all because I failedcreating a good world — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!”… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
