Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die,… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“The children seek to resolve the issue amongst themselves, and mete out punishment to restore balance and keep the game going.” — J.K. Franko Copy Share Image
To build my capability to withstand punishment, I was beaten with a stick or cane sometimes 3,000 times a day. — Antonio Inoki Copy Share Image
In the primary school, I was an outstanding student. My teacher would send me to stand outside of the class as a… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment,… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The… — Gerald Kogan Copy Share Image
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Those is power being largely corrupt, recognize that a non functional and corrupt judiciary will allow them to escape punishment even when… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force. — Hypatia Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong. — Ernest Van den Haag Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of… — Althea Gibson Copy Share Image
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
My only crime was loving you and my punishment was the broken heart, you gave me when you walked out of my… — Unknow Copy Share Image
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things… — Alan Curbishley Copy Share Image
I think there's rehabilitation that is necessary for everyone, and I'm less interested in violence and punishment and much more interested in… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be… — George Sand Copy Share Image
To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a… — Frederic Manning Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. — Marshall Rose Copy Share Image
Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
“If you do good things only because you fear punishment or rejection if you don’t, does it really count? Think about it.… — Kimberly Giles Copy Share Image
“I believe that forgiveness given prematurely is its own form of punishment. When the hand is offered before the heart says it's… — Jax Peters Lowell Copy Share Image
Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
