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I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in… — Miriam Makeba
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished.… — Vince Gilligan
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for… — B.F. Skinner
There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit. — Robert Breault
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. — Edward Coke
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle.… — Joseph Stalin
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had… — Maj Sjowall
Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. — Walter Lang
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay… — Harry Enfield
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could… — Brian Jacques
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system… — David Levering Lewis
It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're… — David Cage
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise… — Thomas Jefferson
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is… — Seneca the Younger
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished… — David Lloyd George
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they… — Pema Chodron
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged… — Anthony Trollope
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is… — Naomi Wolf
Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished. — Mukhtar Ma'i
One is punished by the very things by which he sins. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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