#punish

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#humor #love

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#death #dumb #death

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#lot #message #punishment #rest #send

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ignorance #law #lawyers #only #persons

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#america #been #came #crash #farms

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#crime #guilty #innocent #leave #rather

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#attachment #done #end #expectation #fear

Punishment is lame, but it comes. ↗

— George Herbert

#lame #punishment