Punishment Quotes
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Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
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There is only one reason for that change, and it is to punish people.
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.
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If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.
