#punishment

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

#capital #capital punishment #entire #fair #full

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

— Eli Khamarov

#crime #like #poverty #punishment #you

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

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The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. ↗

— David Knopfler

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

— John Ruskin

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

— George Sand

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

#bad #both #capital #capital punishment #good

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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

— Paul Simon

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