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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.


Marilyn vos Savant


#bad #both #capital #capital punishment #good

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.


Irwin Shaw


#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.


Yakov Smirnoff


#homosexuality #list #locked #locked up #men

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.


Arthur Smith


#creeping #crime #details #i #i do

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.


John Steinbeck


#discipline #dishonesty #punishes #stupidity #word

Let's not talk punishment.


George Steinbrenner


#talk

Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.


Dimitri A. Bogazianos


#drug-policy #drugs #law #social-issues #social-justice

I was shocked to read that Lord Ferrers, a Home Office minister, when booked for speeding and presented with a £40 fixed penalty with three penalty points, them wrote to the Suffolk police to thank them for catching him. There is a sickness in England. If his lordship appreciates punishment so much, it was unkind just to fine him. He should have been caned, with his trousers down, by the side of the road.


Auberon Waugh


#home

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

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.


Vittorio Alfieri


#crime #disgrace #does #punishment






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