#punish

There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it's time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#been #believe #benefits #debate #discourages

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#going #government #levels #mandate #money

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#fighter #getting #guy #hit #hits

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds. ↗

— Charles S. Dutton

#any #anybody #cartoon #fifteen #films

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#capital #capital punishment #controversy #distressing #long

One is punished by the very things by which he sins. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#sins #things #very #which

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#based #derived #effective #fear #kinds

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. ↗

— Walter Lang

#greater #life #other #punished #sex

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#adult #both #child #consolation #culprit

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#displeasure #given #god #grieves #i