#punishment

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ↗

— Henry Ford

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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. ↗

— Lady Gregory

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Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— Jose Bergamin

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First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds. ↗

— Charles S. Dutton

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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

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