#punish

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#daughter #katniss #mom #punishing #relationships

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him. ↗

— Rupert Grint

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The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

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I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet... ↗

— Anne Rice

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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ↗

— Anselm of Canterbury

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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ↗

— Thomas More

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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#different #educating #essentially #function #power

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! ↗

— Gil Gerard

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