Quotes with punishment

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  • Jules Renard Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Hannah More Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • John Locke Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Hosea Ballou Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • George Orwell I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Tucker 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.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • Cass Sunstein If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bram Fischer 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.
    Bram Fischer
    South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist (1908 - 1975)
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  • André Gide In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Margaret Mead It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Carl Sagan It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Pierre Corneille Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Billy Strayhorn Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • John Ray Many without punishment, none without sin.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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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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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bryan Callen My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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