#punish

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

#among #anyone #bill #citizens #civil

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#capital #capital punishment #defensive #however #ignorance

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

Fear follows crime and is its punishment. ↗

— Voltaire

#fear #follows #punishment

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. ↗

— Herodotus

#greater #loves #punish #rest #than

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

Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #love #punishment #relationships #experience

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#punishment

...of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. ↗