Punishing Quotes
128 quotes by 115 authors
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who…
— Tammy Bruce
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
— P.J. O'Rourke
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One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that…
— Theodore Bikel
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is…
— Arthur Miller
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I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger…
— Bill Engvall
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I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her…
— Coretta Scott King
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What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are…
— John P. Walters
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The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."
— Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
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Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between…
— Johannes Voet
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Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament…
— George Gillespie
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is…
— A B Yehoshua
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We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy…
— Rand Paul
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[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it enough…
— Laszlo Radvanyi
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In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of…
— Jim Costa
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God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
— Ginger Baker
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The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It…
— Stanley Greenspan
Who Wrote These Punishing Quotes
115 authors contributed a total of 128 Punishing Quotes, led by these top contributors: