Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Blessed be the country where force and punishment don\'t have to be employed. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“The worst punishment there is for wanting the wrong thing is getting it.” — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it,… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“When you perform too well, you get punished by winning. This feeling is transitory, and after the celebration is over, all you… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog,… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal… — John Van de Kamp Copy Share Image
Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
I love him. (Artemis) How can you say that? You don’t even understand what love means. Love isn’t being ashamed to be… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Instead of Punishment 1. EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS STRONGLY—WITHOUT ATTACKING CHARACTER. “I’m furious that my new saw was left outside to rust in… — Adele Faber Copy Share Image
But when General Ziaul Haq introduced the strict blasphemy - 295 A, B, C - of Pakistan's penal code, then from 1986… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts-the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. When neither is present, one… — John Moulder Wilson Copy Share Image
It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The choice was mine. My punishment is mine to bear, and mine to bear alone. — Knight Lancelot Copy Share Image
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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