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• Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

  Edna O'Brien

  Country, Philosophy, Odds

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• Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hurt, Men, Election

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition”, p.18

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• It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

  Julius Caesar

  Long, May, Prosperity

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• I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Practice, Violence, Royalty

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• The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

  Danny Silk

  Children, Powerful, Differences

  Danny Silk (2009). “Loving Our Kids on Purpose”, p.127, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

  Danny Silk

  Discipline, Trying

  Danny Silk (2009). “Loving Our Kids on Purpose”, p.130, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Doe, Lifetime

  "The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Voice, Feelings, Instinct

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.76, New Canadian Library

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• I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

  Cato the Elder

  Thanks

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• It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

  Evil, Duty

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• People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others. These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism". Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Sex, Earthquakes, People

  "Tsunami Reactions (9) - Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: Disaster a Punishment for Sex Tourism". MEMRI TV, January 2005.

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• The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.

  Sallust

  Art, Prayer, Mistake

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• It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.

  Sallust

  Kings, Believe, Rejection

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• It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.

  Sallust

  Men, Evil, Soul

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• The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Responsibility, Intelligent

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• Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Penalties

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• Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.

  Tulku Thondup

  Karma, Fate, Choices

  Tulku Thondup (2006). “Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the work he does. When there is no feeling to accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

  Joe Whitney

  Children, Work, People

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• Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Regret, Plato

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.56, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• ... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

  Mary B. Harris

  Loss, Liberty, Matter

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• Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Exercise, Rights

  "First State of the Union Address" by Calvin Coolidge, 1923.

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• The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Humble, Tree

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• I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

  Russell Johnson

  People, Trouble, Aids

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• There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.

  Philip Sherrard

  Environmental, Stewardship, Paid

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• There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Religious, Wrath, Religion

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