Quotes Tagged With :punishmen

punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will....

[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous,....

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason on....

I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its....

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation;....

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several....

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what....

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed,....