Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging. — Meldrim Thomson, Jr Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments… — Tamora Pierce 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
I really have to accept the fact that I'm not a young man anymore, that I've probably taken one lifetime's worth of… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven,… — Andrea Leadsom 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
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“With each impact you tell me that my body belongs to you; that I am yours to use, yours to punish and… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgemental’ is ill thought of… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
