Punishment Quotes - Page 10

• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  Lady Gregory

  Birth, Minutes, Wells

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The wonder and supernatural plays”

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• A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Soul

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Trials, Affliction

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Book of Job - Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse”, p.188, Editora Dracaena

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• To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Law, Rewards

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.21, Penguin

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• A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

  Kurt Huber

  Law, Freedom Of Speech, Criticism

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• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

  William Ralph Inge

  Rewards, Consequence

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• I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, Done, Vengeance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

  Penn Jillette

  Needs, Rewards, Morality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Dangerous, Smack

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

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• What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grieving, Past, Infinite

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.1, TAN Books

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• I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

  James Madison

  Regret, Trials, Should

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.342

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• When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Grief, Heart

  "Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann" edited by Mary Mann, (p. 116), 1872.

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• I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

  John Mayer

  Disappointment, Dating, Guilt

  "John Mayer Just Has to Please the Girls". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2009.

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• It’s actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you’re dealing drugs. If you get caught you’re going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it’s much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Drug, Risk, Custody

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Argument, Fit, Crime

  "'Why did I do it? For fun'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2002.

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  Hannah More

  Funny, Women, Memorable

  Letter to her sister, 1775

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• I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Rights, Blood, Law

  Hosni Mubarak's speech to his nation, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

  Robert Mugabe

  Suffering, Slave, Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Enemies List”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

  George Orwell

  Education, Doubt, Has Beens

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• I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Long, Grudge

  "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I Wrote the Book While My Mother Was Dying of Cancer'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2011.

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• We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

  Leon Panetta

  Believe, Law, Dignity

  "Obama's CIA Pick Has Confirmation Hearings". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.

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• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  Dennis Prager

  Respect, Responsibility, Ideas

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• Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

  Dennis Prager

  Acting, Opponents, Facts

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