Quotes 41 till 60 of 71.
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Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.
Individual Liberty -
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
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Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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The liar's punishment, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Quintessence Of Ibsenism -
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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