#pun

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

#drink #impunity #invites #them #who

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ↗

— Anselm of Canterbury

#me #mercy #punish #spare #through

I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep. ↗

— Mark Rice

#heavy-metal #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #punishment #sleep

In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy! ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#access #already #cars #crazy #everything

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#day #down #drink #every #every day

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#complement #does #guilt #hurries #lie

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#absolute #act #always #decisions #great

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ↗

— Thomas More

#manners #politics #punishment #scapegoats #thieves

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#different #educating #essentially #function #power