Hook Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.”

— Timothy Snyder

“When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.”

— Hippocrates

“Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It’s lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.” -Skulduggery”

— Derek Landy

“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”

— Piper Kerman

“Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“When you feed hungry people, you are showing mercy. The search for justice begins when you ask why the hungry are hungry.”

— Rich Nathan

“He takes the guilt and responsibility that others can't. John takes the punches. I just take the hunger, and most times it feels like…

— A.C. Gaughen

“No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his grasp. Ever…

— Herta Müller

“No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.”

— Lev Grossman

“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.”

— Jo Nesbø

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

“Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?”

— Mary Shelley