Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness… — Tani Cantil-Sakauye Copy Share Image
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have. Also justice should be the goal of every American.… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts… — Maurice Richard Copy Share Image
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on… — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it… — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
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