I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.” — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight… — David Gill Copy Share Image
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although I consider myself pretty liberal, I'm not against punishment. There's nothing wrong with punishing someone who has done something wrong. Or… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
I do not think we should reward murderers by keeping them alive in air conditioned prisons where they are fed everyday. If… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“I was shocked to read that Lord Ferrers, a Home Office minister, when booked for speeding and presented with a £40 fixed… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention. — Roy Hattersley Copy Share Image
But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Any Jew who remained in Spain after July of 1492 would “incur punishment by death and confiscation of all their belongings.” — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
