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There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
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.
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.
I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
It's about getting in there and being ready, getting the fight on your terms, taking the least amount of punishment possible.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.
I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?
Every love that leads away from His love is in fact a punishment; only a love that leads to His love is a heartfelt and pure love.
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.