There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
I really have to accept the fact that I'm not a young man anymore, that I've probably taken one lifetime's worth of… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven,… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog,… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal… — John Van de Kamp Copy Share Image
Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance;… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if… — Charles H Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I had authority issues. In my defense, my math teacher had it coming. She’d made me write one hundred on the black… — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Some parents cannot distinguish between punishment and discipline. Anyone can punish a child and many parents do it out of frustration. Discipline… — Eric W. Hickey Copy Share Image
“I concentrate intently on counting: hearing my voice break as the torment and torture builds; fingering myself intensely at his instruction. As… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
Through the oncoming storm and the days past its wake, spending the eternity it takes to to serve my penance. No wrong… — Leilani Spencer-Goodsir Copy Share Image
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them… — Jane Nelsen Copy Share Image
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,… — William Jones Copy Share Image
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the… — Sidney Hatch Copy Share Image
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each… — Faxian Copy Share Image
“All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
“She was trying to find the section that described the penalties for treason. She'd browsed through the section at one point and… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Societies have debated the severity of punishment for vile acts over millennia, with complex moral arguments on both sides of the question.… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them,… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image