Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“We Americans seem to derive a great deal of pleasure out of punishing those who fail to measure up to our standards of morality…

— Neal Boortz

“What punishment a free people can mete out to its enemy when aroused by unjust attack! Free America was speaking! Mighty America was speaking!…

— William Arthur Sirmon

“To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far too precious…

— Edgar Saltus

“They focused on reparation to the victim rather than punishment or fines levied on the perpetrator, and common consent of the people was necessary…

— Ben Carson

“They weren't like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled.”

— Edward W. Said

“People hate people, not freedom.”

— David Foster Wallace

“In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no…

— Epictetus

“People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.”

— Bethany McLean

“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”

— Pat Conroy

“Not that I condoned violence, but if anyone was deserving of it, it was people who could hate and harm people on the sole…

— Jessica Gadziala

“Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.”

— Lynn Cullen

“Almost none of us know how to escape the trap of self-punishment. It has sinisterly woven itself into the fibers of American femininity.”

— Stefani Ruper