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Punishment Quotes
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- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
- Adequately
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
- Nov 07, 2020
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was ratified by the United Nations in 1948 that Lemkin's proposed law was given at least the appearance of force and effect.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
- Effectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.
- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a punishment, not a drink.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.
- Charity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
- Goodness
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Nov 07, 2020
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting the police involved or levying an absurd punishment just because that's what some zero-tolerance rule mandates - even though it's clear that the student in question wasn't a danger - doesn't make anyone safer. Worse, it can actually cause harm.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.
- Grave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
- Fair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
- Capital Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's not talk punishment.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
- Gravity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020