#punishment

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

#honesty #human-nature #lying #man #penalize

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#capital #capital punishment #exposing #full #gave

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#crime #like #poverty #punishment #you

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#apple #been #consequences #disagrees #eve

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#homosexuality #list #locked #locked up #men

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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