#punishment

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#itself #mischief #punishment

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#offers #only #punishment #repentance #sin

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. ↗

— Albert Camus

#murder #dating

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#best #enhances #given #make #may

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#funny #got #lot #man #punishment

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. ↗

— Edward Bond

#acquired #bores #empire #english #punishment

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#compensated #crime #doctor #does #fit

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#adapt #altered #been #beginning #believers

Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#does #just #punishment #vengeance

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#cards #immediately #out #politics #power