Punishment Quotes
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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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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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.
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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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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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To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
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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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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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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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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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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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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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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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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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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
