#punishment

...Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and "kept captive by polygamous fanatics." The main difference in the girls' respective ordeals...is that "Elizabeth was brainwashed for nine months," while Ruby had been brainwashed by polygamist fanatics "since birth." Despite the similarity of their plights, Elizabeth's abusers were jailed and charged with sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and aggravated kidnapping, while Ruby... "was returned to her abusers, no real investigation was done, no charges brought against anyone" involved. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#mormonism #polygamy #religion #religion-and-children #women-s-rights

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#shame

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. ↗

— George Berkeley

#disagreeable #entered #eternal #ever #head

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#effective #far #method #proved #punishment

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#god #homosexuals #just #punishment #society

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet... ↗

— Anne Rice

#bad #bdsm #beauty #girl #punishment

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ↗

— Elizabeth Fry

#criminal #lessen #punishment #reform #revenge

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#justice #law #love #punishment #surrender

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. ↗

— William Ernest Henley

#captain #charged #fate #gate #how

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom