The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death… — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn? — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the… — Claude Montefiore Copy Share Image
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a… — Blackie Sherrod Copy Share Image
“Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
