Best Punishments Sayings
99 Punishments quotes by 82 unique authors
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What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of…
— Menachem Begin
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.
— Joseph Addison
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But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our…
— Eusebius
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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with…
— Confucius
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
— Ben Jonson
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From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments,…
— George Gilder
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Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
— Kamala Harris
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
— Wendell Berry
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People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible.…
— Bill Paxton
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Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of…
— William Ernest Henley
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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally…
— Kurt Huber
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
— William Ralph Inge
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a…
— Confucius
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins…
— Martin Luther
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...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence,…
— Marquis de Sade
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Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— Thomas Aquinas
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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are…
— Aldous Huxley
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Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A…
— Brent Weeks
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