#punishing

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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