#ena

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#four #grandchildren #guess #husband #i

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#always #arena #bad #been #believed

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#begun #criminal #criminal penalties #first #gave

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#countenance #fading #flourishing #immortal #never

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. ↗

— Dave Barry

#about #advice #defined #listen #modern

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd. ↗

— Dave Barry

#skiers #view

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blueprints #child #definitely #dreams #enabled

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Max Baucus

#democratic #institution #legislature #like #other