The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death… — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount… — William Landay Copy Share Image
The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Whether Iranians are drinking wine in the evening or painting something "offensive," they choose not to dwell on the fact that they… — Azadeh Moaveni Copy Share Image
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats.… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my… — Clay Aiken 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and… — Norbert Wiener 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 fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about… — Stephen Colbert 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
we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
Getting the police involved or levying an absurd punishment just because that's what some zero-tolerance rule mandates - even though it's clear… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
“In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
If we talk about 'Groundhog Day' as a humanistic text - we only have one life, and there's no punishment or reward… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay… — Jim Harbaugh 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
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
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that… — Hans von Storch 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
