Quotes with punishing

  • There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
  • Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

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  • Napoleon Hill Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Alan Cohen Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bronson Pinchot I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Sydney Smith It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Sydney Smith Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Barbara Deming Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Bill Engvall There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
    Now Thats Awesome
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Barbara Deming Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
    We are all part of one another
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Ann Coulter We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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