It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing… — Andre Ward Copy Share Image
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I can remember I lost three and a half stone weight loss. It was painful, it was excruciating, it was hell. I… — Gemma Collins Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on… — Mark Rice Copy Share Image
The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Within seconds, his hand is inside my panties. Now he can feel just how much I am enjoying this. I think I… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you. — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the best punishment, you can give to your loved ones & it is the most painful experience yo can receive… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty… — Caryl Chessman Copy Share Image
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“Unaweza kusaliti nchi kwa sababu za kiitikadi, kisiasa, matatizo ya akili, au pesa. Ukifanya hivyo na ukabainika; utawajibika kwa adhabu ya kifo,… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.] — Horace Copy Share Image
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something. — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image