#punish

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#capital #capital punishment #come #contend #i

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. ↗

— Albert Camus

#ceaselessly #condemned #dreadful #fall #futile

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#any #blindly #encourage #even #fight

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 would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#capital punishment #democracies #i #like #punishment

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. ↗

— Justinian I

#crime #go #guilty #innocent #rather

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. ↗

— Juvenal

#first #guilty #heart #his #man

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#action #catch #crime #fast #fix

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#deserve #did #explain #fate #held

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