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Punishment Quotes
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. - Simone Weil Quotes
A mans got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway Quotes
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde Quotes
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. - Samuel Richardson Quotes
Im currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! - Gil Gerard Quotes
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. - Ida B Wells Quotes
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. - L Neil Smith Quotes
Over the past year there has arisen an apparent absence of fear of punishment in regards to the arbitrary divulging of classified information. - Kit Bond Quotes
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. - George Berkeley Quotes
To be misunderstood can be the writers punishment for having disturbed the readers peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. - Anatole Broyard Quotes
Well, theres no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. - Lady Gregory Quotes
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. - Corrine Brown Quotes
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. - Bruno Bettelheim Quotes
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. - Charlize Theron Quotes
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. - Thomas Szasz Quotes
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. - Giacomo Casanova Quotes
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. - Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard Quotes
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. - Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. - Edvard Munch Quotes
AIDS is not just Gods punishment for homosexuals; it is Gods punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. - Jerry Falwell Quotes
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective. - Moshe Dayan Quotes
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. - John Philpot Curran Quotes
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. - Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. - Max Nordau Quotes
An absolutely necessary part of a writers equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. - Dorothy Dix Quotes
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. - Walter Kaufmann Quotes
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people wont be put to death. - Paul Simon Quotes
The liars punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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