Punishment Quotes - Page 40

• If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

  Chinua Achebe

  Land, Oil, Wrath

  Chinua Achebe (1992). “Things Fall Apart”, Everyman's Library

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• The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

  David Shore

  Words Of Wisdom, Rooms, Fit

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• Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

  Jay Bilas

  Motivational, Basketball, Work

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• We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Compassion, Justice

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• Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Believe, Men, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

  Leanda de Lisle

  Faults, Youth, Excuse

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• Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Angry Man, Accounts

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Cities, Suffering, Sin

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, Pt. 2, ch. 15, 1609.

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• People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

  William Penn

  Men, Law, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

  Walter Scott

  Flower, Pride, Dark

  Walter Scott (1821). “The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake”, p.13

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• But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Responsibility, Law, Abuse

  "Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  George Washington

  Men, May, Coquette

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

  William Godwin

  Mean, Barbarians, Compulsion

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.373

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• Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Soul

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 1, 1948.

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• The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, People, Kind

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• Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

  Jerry Brown

  Consciousness, States, Higher

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• There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Promise, Purpose

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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• Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

  Georg Brandes

  Medicine, Guilt, Example

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.14, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.

  Clay Aiken

  Notebook, Mother, Writing

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.10, Random House

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• Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Compassion, No Excuses

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

  Plato

  Past, Men, Evil

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• I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.

  Martin Luther

  World, Earth, Surpassing

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• Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Done, Ifs

  "A Doll's House". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Torvald Helmer, Act I, 1879.

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• Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Made, Libel

  77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.

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• The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Glazov, historynewsnetwork.org. December 23, 2003.

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