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• Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

  Samuel Richardson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punishment, Shame

• The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

  William Sessions

  Topics in Goal, Justice

  Tags in Punishment

• Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.

  Charlize Theron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Struggle, Punishment

• I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

  Edvard Munch

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Punishment

• In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

  Edvard Munch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Childhood, Punishment

• The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

  Edward Bond

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empire, Punishment

• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Topics in Truth, Work

  Tags in Punishment

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  Augustine of Hippo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cause, Martyr, Punishment

• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  Augustine of Hippo

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Punishment

• By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

  Wilhelm Frick

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Fulfillment, Punishment, Duty

• He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Punishment

• If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

  Abram Fischer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fight, Understand, Punishment

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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 Arnold Kaufmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punishment, Suffering

• But I knew if I ran I’d never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  Aaron Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sing, Punishment

• I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

  Richard Attenborough

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punishment, Capital, Opposed

• I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

  Ric Flair

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Punishment

• A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Punishment, Book

• Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  Renata Adler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punishment, Human Life

• Cross country was something that started off as a punishment from my father for low grades. I guess he didn’t realize it would take off so well. It gave me something to do with my free time and it taught me to be accountable.

  A. J. Ellison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punishment, Taught

• Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.

  Zenobius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punishment, Crime