#punish

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#deals #empty #fall #favor #most

We are not punished for our sins, but by them. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#punished #sins #them

I'll probably be punished for hard living. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#i #living #probably #punished

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#fault #how #justly #knows #nature

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal. ↗

— William Sessions

#executions #fair #goal #justice #make

They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with." ... As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#cruel #fates #love #percy-jackson #punishment

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death-penalty #gandalf #j-r-r-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #death

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#crime #death #justice #punishment #death

Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#community #justice #punishment #death

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#education #injustice #punishment #education