The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment. — James Fox Copy Share Image
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than… — Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that… — Émile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
