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• Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called "fall of man". Their punishment was to experience pain in childbirth, and never be trusted by man or God again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Women, Fall

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• The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.

  George MacDonald

  Taken, Mean, Men

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• Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

  Albert Pierrepoint

  Revenge, Views, Capital Punishment

  Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”

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• We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

  Philip Yancey

  Wrath, Serving God, God's Love

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.363, Hachette UK

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• Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

  Michelle Alexander

  Government, Tools, Use

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.7, The New Press

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• Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?

  Dana Gioia

  Catholic, Dumb, Soul

  "The Catholic Writer Today". www.firstthings.com. December 2013.

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• Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Festivals, Ancient, Cruelty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arlie J. Hoover (1994). “Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought”, Praeger Publishers

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• I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teacher, Strong, Children

  News Conference 56, May 22, 1963.

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• When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked myself a question: 'How come people like Mike? How come they like Magic? How come they like Bird? How come they don't like the big guys?' So I just throw a little bit of what they were doing. You smile, you act crazy and silly. And I think people like me because I'm different. I've always been a class clown type of guy. It comes natural.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Crazy, Silly

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• Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Believe, People, Hardship

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• Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

  Marshall Rose

  Self Esteem, Damage, Attention

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• Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers.

  Ashley Montagu

  Children, Integrity, Frustration

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• When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Children, Integrity, Compassion

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• Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.

  Omar Suleiman

  Trials, Merciful

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 12, 2013

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• Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Heaven, Wish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1951, Delphi Classics

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• If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

  Confucius

  Law, People, Trying

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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• Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

  Willa Cather

  Fate, Wicked, Deserve

  Willa Cather (2013). “One of Ours”, p.232, Courier Corporation

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• God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.131

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• The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Opportunity, Missing, Use

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Passion

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• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

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• A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

  Ouida

  Men, Blood, May

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.100, Ouida

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• With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Expectations, Soul, Suffering

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• In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sacrifice, Law, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.159

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• The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessed, Men, Miracle

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.163

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