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Punishment Quotes
Lines on rules, consequences, and disgrace.
This set looks at punishment as the natural companion to rules: once rules exist, breaking them invites consequences. One quote draws a sharper distinction, arguing that shame comes from the wrongdoing itself rather than from what follows it. See related themes in our Crime quotes.
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- 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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Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
- Events
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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.
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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