Quotes about punish
punishment misanthrope mets
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. Florence King
punishment
I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment. Henry Lawson
punishment views overcoming
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them. Helen Keller
punishing-yourself how-you-feel way
Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel. Cassandra Clare
punishment rewards tongue
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment. George Eliot
punishment ideas religion
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death. Gore Vidal
punishment enemy rewards
All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends. James Buchanan
punishment
What punishments of God are not gifts? J. R. R. Tolkien
punishment doe needs
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. Georges Bernanos
punishment misery prosperity
death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life ... George Sand
punishment impossible autonomy
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible. Jean Piaget
punishment bears fit
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear. Jacqueline Carey
punishment desire fierce
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate. Christopher Hitchens
punishment economics type
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. Gary Becker
punishment havens
I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
punishment prison proportion
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion. George Washington
punishment soldier guilt
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause. George Washington
punishment given dare
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. Fyodor Dostoevsky
punishment humanity suffering
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity. Fyodor Dostoevsky
punishment ideas numbers
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact. Fyodor Dostoevsky
punishment murder crime
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. Fyodor Dostoevsky
punishment people feelings
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. Friedrich Nietzsche
punishment withdrawal nations
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. Jerzy Kosinski
punishment usa long
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. Jerzy Kosinski
punishment yoke
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. George Eliot
punishment long murder
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. Geoffrey Fisher
punishment sin
Every sin brings its punishment with it. George Herbert
punishment
Let's not talk punishment. George Steinbrenner
punishment government would-be
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel. George Soros
punishment may sin
Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment. George R. R. Martin
punishment wealth
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment. Euripides
punishment arrogant redemption
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do. Francis Chan
punishment rewards consideration
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. Harriet Martineau