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• We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

  Paul Elmer More

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• Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

  Bill Bennett

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• And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• Wickedness is its own punishment.

  Francis Quarles

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• I’m currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

  Gil Gerard

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• God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• I haven’t took no punishment. There’s nothing cool about taking punishment.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

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  Tags in Punishment, Nothing

• I’m not in this sport to take punishment.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

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• I contend that it’s impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

  Tony Campolo

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• Let’s not talk punishment.

  George Steinbrenner

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• Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

  Steven Morrissey

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• Punishment is lame but it comes.

  George Herbert

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• The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

  Corrine Brown

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• That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

  George Berkeley

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• The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

  Geoffrey Fisher

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• Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

  Clint Eastwood

  Topics in Children, Society

  Tags in Reason, Punishment

• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  Gary Becker

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  Tags in State, Punishment, Imprisonment

• That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

  Thomas Aquinas

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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

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