#punish

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#humor #love

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#failure #john-steinbeck #morality #punishment #strength

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind, ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#punishment #religion #nature

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#influence #suggestion #terror #influence

Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #love #punishment #relationships #experience

The punishment for rape should be castration. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#punishment #rape #rape

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 should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. ↗

— Lord Byron

#check #crimes #efforts #fail #had

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#certain #condemns #definite #justifies #law

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes. ↗

— Jim Costa

#also #children #counseling #crimes #horrible