I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. — John Bercow Copy Share Image
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic… — Douglas Kent Hall 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
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“Discipline at the office had long been enforced by the use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the… — Oliver Goldsmith 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 think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When you know what you have done wrong, punishment is not so painful because it feels deserved and serves to improve you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
“The idea of death has been associated with the fear of the unknown, and the punishment or reward for our life choices.… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Punishment? You don‚Äôt have any right to punish me. And I can curse. I choose not to most of the time, but… — Lexi Blake Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it. — J. Norman Collie Copy Share Image
When love turns to hate the most is his personality to the same punishment — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
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