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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.


Matthew Henry


#always #extraordinary #graces #punishment #sins

Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in.


Barry Unsworth


#community #justice #punishment #death

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.


Herman Melville


#punishment #repentance #faith

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.


Joe Abercrombie


#forgiveness

No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just murder, a capital crime - except it was slow, day-by-day murder. The government (or humanity) could not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time. To kill one man - that is, to subtract 50 years from the sum of all human lives - that was a crime; but to subtract from the sum of all human lives 50,000,000 years - that was not a crime! No, really, isn't it funny? This problem in moral math could be solved in half a minute by any ten-year-old Number today, but they couldn't solve it. All their Kant's together couldn't solve it (because it never occurred to one of their Kant's to construct a system of scientific ethics - that is, one based on subtraction, addition, division, and multiplication).


Yevgeny Zamyatin


#death #philosophy #death

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind,


Terry Pratchett


#punishment #religion #nature

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.


Mikhail Bulgakov


#influence #suggestion #terror #influence

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.


Caryl Chessman


#capital #capital punishment #day #defeated #exactly

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.


Gregg Easterbrook


#espn #fired #fitting #i #me






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