#punish

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

— Emily Dickinson

#chastisement #merit #punishment #talent

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

#must #nation #punishment #than #totalitarian

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

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. ↗

— Justinian I

#crime #go #guilty #innocent #rather

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. ↗

— Juvenal

#first #guilty #heart #his #man

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#action #catch #crime #fast #fix

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#forbidden #kill #large #large numbers #numbers

I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me. And I had to know. Once again, I crawled away from my bed and pushed the computer cord back into the socket. It took three minutes. I quickly identified myself and put in my password. Then it thought. I wanted to bounce impatiently, but I couldn’t make myself move. At last, I found the internet, and I typed in a name, on the company page, under my account. I searched ‘images’. And there, on the screen in front of me, was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen. I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up and spilling over as I stared back at the smiling face. It couldn’t be him. It was. Derek Erickson. And I was going to kill him. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#derek #kill #list #love #murder

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#looking-back #punishments #remorse #undo-past-mistakes #undone