Children Quote by Anonymous

“Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are…

— Victor Hugo

“God has already shown us the way [to parent]. He parents, not according to an external list of rules, but according to his nature.…

— Leslie Leyland Fields

“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not…

— Plato

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of…

— Hans Kung

“all these sentences to exile with hard labor, and formerly with flogging also, reform no one, and what's more, deter hardly a single criminal,…

— Anton Chekhov

The world is the court of God. The criminal is God; the punisher is God; man serves the sentence.

— Kedar Joshi

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

— Lady Gregory

“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement.…

— Albert Camus

“It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and formerly with flogging, too, do not reform anyone…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in…

— Thomas Secker

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

— Matthew Henry

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my…

— Bertrand Russell