#pun

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#anymore #back #baseball #bring #caps

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#dine #fast #fast food #feed #food

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. ↗

— Richard Land

#believers #civil #evil #god #magistrate

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them. ↗

— John Lasseter

#deliver #funnier #how #i #jokes

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#fella #had #i #just #like

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#because #bigger #challenge #got #harder

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't. ↗

— Joel Madden

#cliched #go #punk #very #you

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#inflicted #justice #love #much #pain

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. ↗

— John Mayer

#disappointment #equate #even #explain #feels