#punish

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. ↗

— Milos Forman

#afford #also #anything #brilliant #communist

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. ↗

— Wilhelm Frick

#been #carried #duties #dutiful #duty

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#chastisement #merit #punishment #talent

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#always #because #cared #enough #game

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#must #nation #punishment #than #totalitarian

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#capital punishment #human #human life #life #our

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#beyond #commit #conduct #constantly #constructive

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#after #dared #every #far #i

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#criminals #made #punished #should #those

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous