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Letter "P" » punishment
«The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it»
«Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.»
«The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.»
Author: Ming Fu Wu
| Keywords:
deeds, earn, effects, for good, inescapable, inevitable, meditate, meditated, postponed, postpones, postponing, punishment, reward, wages
«The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Death and dying,
Religion,
Society
| Keywords:
buttress, buttresses, buttressing, punishment, terrified
«Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.»
«Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
And Justice For All, catch on, catch up with, caught, deal, deal out, do justice, guiltier, guilty, He Is Guilty, justice, justices, out to, punishment, The Catch
«The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
believed, in the least, least, liar, punishment
«The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Crime and Punishment, dubious, grounded, notion, obviously, prevent, prevented, punishment, sole
«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?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
barbarous, crime, Crime and Punishment, criminal, criminal law, duplicate, duplicated, duplicates, duplicating, essential, horror, Laws, laws of logic, murder, murdering, Or logic, punish, punishment, Republican, The Criminals, tolerate, tolerating
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, committed, community, crime, crimes, Crime and Punishment, employment, habitual, infinitely, inflicted, not absolutely, occasional, occurrence, occurrences, punishment, punishments, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, wicked
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