But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace Copy Share Image
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
To mete out punishment itself becomes a punishment for that person who gives it when the convict is someone close to him. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“I had been caught with one of Prodigium's greatest enemies. Something told me that punishment would be a lot worse than writing… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's a punishment game... only two boxers get in the ring. So when we get in the ring and we're not angry,… — Mary Kom Copy Share Image
Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a… — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
Fear is what activates your tools; your jab, your movement, your speed, your ability to absorb punishment. — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock… — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
“My Dear Friend, You do not know me, but I know you. Since you first breathed in this world, I have watched… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment -… — Joe Gilgun Copy Share Image
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“If punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes watered. The only way you generate the proper attitude of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Let the punishment fit the crime,' goes the saying. Our criminal justice system - to a large degree - meets this standard. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Something that my teammates always thought was going to be a punishment for me - sitting next to Coach Russell on the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times. — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
