#punishment

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. ↗

— George Sand

#his #man #pleasure #punishment #reward

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#bad #both #capital #capital punishment #good

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. ↗

— Paul Simon

#capital punishment #death #guarantee #innocent #innocent people

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#any #appointed #caught #constitutional #constitutional amendment

Let's not talk punishment. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#talk

Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood. ↗

— Dimitri A. Bogazianos

#drug-policy #drugs #law #social-issues #social-justice

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#love #low-self-esteem #people #punishment #quotable

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#shane-collins #punishment

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#punishment