The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Copy Share Image
What's the difference between pleasure and torture? Pleasure is thinking of you & torture is thinking of you too much. — Norden Copy Share Image
We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too… — Jeffrey Bell Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do?… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Every punishment from God is pure justice and every blessing from Him is pure grace. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
