#punishment

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. ↗

— Ovid

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We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#earn #idea #ideas #income #liberal

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

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