#punishment

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

— Kristin Hannah

#humor #love

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#failure #john-steinbeck #morality #punishment #strength

Men are punished by their sins, not for them. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#punishment #sin #love

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

— Bill Bennett

#lot #message #punishment #rest #send

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#capital #capital punishment #day #defeated #exactly

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #better #camp #either #i

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#any #court #deliberate #disrespectful #fear

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#capital #capital punishment #defensive #however #ignorance

Fear follows crime and is its punishment. ↗

— Voltaire

#fear #follows #punishment

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. ↗

— Andre Gide

#begin #hell #left #lifetime #other