#punish

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#escape #even #forms #guilty #law

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

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#fury #itself #like #mind #punishment

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#crime #like #poverty #punishment #you

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. ↗

— David Knopfler

#club #creative #expectation #figured #fit

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#bad #both #capital #capital punishment #good

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#any #appointed #caught #constitutional #constitutional amendment

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#capital punishment #countries #crime #higher #i