#punishment

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. ↗

— Jayne Mansfield

#big #either #going #punishment #same

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#afterlife #children #dangers #early #external

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#childhood #felt #hanging #head #hell

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

#cruel #dignity #either #ground #individual

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

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

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

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#cannot #heal #only #punishment #spirits

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

— Dorothy Dix

#confession #grave #keeps #own #punishment

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i