- Fair
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- 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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020