Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment? — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Do not ever make fun of fat people, their life is nothing less than a punishment. — Mohd Aariff Khan Copy Share Image
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them:… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering.… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some… — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
On the one side, I welcome prosecutions of individuals such as Pinochet, and would welcome the indictment, prosecution, and punishment of Kissinger.… — Richard A. Falk 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
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply… — Harold S. Kushner 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
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a… — Blackie Sherrod Copy Share Image
The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Copy Share Image
