Quotes with punish

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• We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

  Address before Unitarian Ministers Institute, Salem, Mass., 14 October 1890

  Benjamin Tucker
  American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.

  Burt Shavitz
  American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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• Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Amnesty: The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

  The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• manufacture
• magnanimity
• magnaminity
• offenders
• expensive
• state’s

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