#punish

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#cruel #dignity #either #ground #individual

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#aristocratic #atheism #being #crime #great

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#desecration #doing #emblem #flag #freedom

There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#people #punished #say #some #some people

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

#capital #capital punishment #entire #fair #full

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#anorexic #being #feel #foot #healthy

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. ↗

— George Sand

#his #man #pleasure #punishment #reward