Folly Quote by Andrew Coyle Bradley

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

— Ovid

“It was once said that violence is the language of the incompetent. This is something to ponder while remembering that little acts of kindness…

— Sean Azimov

“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in this respect.…

— Ronald Carter

“it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless.…

— Kim Fielding

“Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please? Why was it useless to try to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.”

— John Piper

“The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the…

— Howard Zinn

“Suffering to the criminal can never be justified by the notion of vindictive punishment. If education combined with kindness is equally effective, it is…

— Bertrand Russell

“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

“To define his tendency in a word, I would say that Chekhov was the poet of hopelessness. Stubbornly, sadly, monotonously, during all the years…

— Lev Shestov

“All throughout his life, he'd been rewarded by sticking to a simple philosophy: refuse to be weak. Push as hard as you can. Pain…

— Kent Wayne

“Revenge was violence and therefore forbidden by the Teacher - excepting violence against unbelievers, of course, which this probably would be.”

— Dave Duncan