Quotes about pun
punishment wife domestic-violence
...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it. Nicholas Sparks
pun
Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be! Oscar Wilde
punishment community political
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
punishment community employment
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
punishment class rights
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. Lyman Trumbull
punishment forgiving finals
Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive. Martin Luther King, Jr.
punishment abortion birth
No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions. Mitt Romney
punishment hands justice
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment. R. C. Sproul
punishment trials merciful
Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good. Omar Suleiman
punishment crime familiar
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. Oliver Goldsmith
punishment limits retribution
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. Marcus Tullius Cicero
punishment equal offence
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
punishment should
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
punishment offense
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
punishment argument fit
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. Kevin Mitnick
punishment rocks law
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. Mark Twain
punishment history wicked
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
punishment self abandoned
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self. Pasquier Quesnel
punishment issues battle
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point. Lillian Hellman
punishment enlightenment rewards
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you. Laird Barron
punishment mind use
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force. Hypatia
punk form folks
Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! Michelle Shocked
punishment suffering trends
[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. John Paul Stevens
punishment church able
The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it. John Owen
punishment wings add
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. John Milton
punishment tragedy world
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment. Norbert Wiener
punishment gone fixing
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment. Mitch Albom
punishment gone gone-time
When hope is gone, time is punishment.
punk
Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart. John Rzeznik
punishment essentials judgment
I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not. Sherrilyn Kenyon
punishment may rewards
The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty. Nassau William Senior
punishment law may
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own. Myrtle Reed
punishment people capital-punishment
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn? Mort Sahl