Best Punished Thoughts
292 Punished quotes by 243 unique authors
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In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a…
— Mike Harding
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Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying…
— Lierre Keith
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get…
— Donald Miller
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
— Gustave Flaubert
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To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say:…
— William Hague
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
— Elbert Hubbard
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
— Kin Hubbard
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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder,…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.
— Daniel Kahneman
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I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like…
— Heath Ledger
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As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
— Hugh Leonard
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I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
— Jerry Lewis
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People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We…
— David Millar
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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
— Kevin Mitnick
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But…
— Barack Obama
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are…
— Matthew Prior
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I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
— Dennis Rodman
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I'll probably be punished for hard living.
— Tupac Shakur
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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views?…
— Natan Sharansky
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After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge…
— Edward Snowden
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