Punishment Quotes
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The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.
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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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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
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What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
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A fate is not a punishment.
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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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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?
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Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
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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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If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.
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There is only one reason for that change, and it is to punish people.
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If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
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There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
