All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism. — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. — Richard Attenborough 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
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Expecting is my favorite crime & disappointment is always my punishment. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
“You'll be beaten for this in the morning; but I may as well give you something on account now.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of… — Joshua Mohr 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
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
Common sense is really not a treasured gift, sometimes it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Others took exception to being forced to wear little-girl-type dresses (a psychopath-devised punishment for noncooperation in the program).” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
“When you do a bad deed, if God did not forgive you, it might punishes you at the same time of conducting… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the… — Jeffrey St. Clair Copy Share Image
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring.… — Anonymous 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
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,… — John P. Walters Copy Share Image
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Blessed be the country where force and punishment don't have to be employed. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. — George Sand Copy Share Image
LAWS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN BUT PUNISHMENT IS THE TOOL USE TO AMEND A BROKEN LAW. — CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN Copy Share Image
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
