Punishment Quotes - Page 32

• Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Brother, Practice, Islam

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• The thing about discipline is that people misunderstand the word discipline. People think discipline in the dog world is punishment. Discipline is how you achieve what you want to achieve in life. You have to be very focused, very disciplined, very consistent, very diligent. All of those things.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Thinking, Discipline

  "Cesar Millan Has A Brand-New Show And He's Here To Save Your Dog". Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector of trans people, we should be focused on what systems of law and administration do to trans people and our interventions should aim to dismantle harmful, violent systems such as criminal punishment and immigration enforcement.

  Dean Spade

  Law, People, Criminals

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I'm not involved in any Philadelphia-related game or situation. When people claim I'm going to have a "vendetta" against every other Eastern Conference team I don't understand the logic: I'm not the one doling out the punishment.

  Chris Pronger

  Team, Games, Philadelphia

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There are times when players have got to feel that if they work hard and they give everything, they get the carrot, but they also need to know that there's a stick. If performance, discipline or attitude isn't good enough, there is a bit of the stick and there will be a punishment.

  Warren Gatland

  Attitude, Hard Work, Player

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.

  Gordon T. Smith

  Brother, Powerful, Reading

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• A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their causes in his own sins, and not in anyone else. But a mindless man, when he sins and receives the punishment for it, considers the cause of his misfortune to be God, or people, not understanding God's care for him.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Support, Violence

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• In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

  Ronald Reagan

  Favors, Want, Stories

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• The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

  Voltaire

  Men, Knowing, Race

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• Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

  Jessamyn West

  Writing, Earth, Hell

  To See the Dream ch. 1 (1957)

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• Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Golf, Men, Sin

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• We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Dwelling Place, Cells

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Evil, Rewards

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

  Henry Miller

  Spring, Study, Crime

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

  Steve Allen

  People, United States, Half

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

  William Jones

  Christian, Men, Vices

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• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Fate, Suffering, Hinduism

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• We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

  Paul Goodman

  Pain, Blessing, Intelligent

  "Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 71-72), 1956.

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• Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Suffering And Death, People

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• Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

  Charles Mackay

  Desperate, Individual, Sooner Or Later

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.67

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• Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Running, Stress

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion who have handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the firstborn of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the firstborn of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.

  Bob Marshall

  Christian, Children, Animal

  "Va. delegate says reports on abortion comments were 'unfair'" by Fredrick Kunkle, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2010.

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• In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.

  Bob Marshall

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

  Seth

  Karma, Taken, Ignorance

  "The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42 : 11/26/63-4/8/64" by Seth, Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts, The Early Sessions: Book 8, Session 388, (p. 158), 1997.

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