#punish

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#like #nations #punished #their #transgressions

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

#deserving #his #minute #punishment #saying

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#bodies #body #categorically #children #emotion

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ↗

— Hannah More

#drunk #getting #getting drunk #going #like

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#away #barbarous #criminal #criminal justice #english-speaking

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#nature #neither #nor #punishments #rewards

No good deed goes unpunished. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#goes #good #good deed #unpunished

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#enjoy #god #grace #hell #may