#punish

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#beyond #commit #conduct #constantly #constructive

I do not believe having a baby is punishment. ↗

— Allen West

#believe #having #having a baby #i #i do

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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#before #dawn #dreamer #find #his

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#anyone #blood #bombing #desperate #even

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks. ↗

— John Yoo

#al #attacks #bin #continue #fights

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#crime #guilty #innocent #leave #rather

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#believe #condemn #creation #enough #eternal

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#always #anyone #between #cannot #comes

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#anyone #between #cannot #comes #directions

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic