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" According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. "

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

" All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. "

" All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. "

Joseph de Maistre

" All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. "

Edwin M. Stanton

" All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. "

" All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. "

Ernest Hemingway

" 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

" And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. "

Gregg Easterbrook

" Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into. "

Christopher McDougall

" A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. "

" A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Being fined for violating the rules of your league is not the same as a shop owner on Main Street paying to have a new sign hung in front of their business. One is a business expense, the other is a punishment. "

" But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. "

Benjamin Tucker

" By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. "

" Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. "

" Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. "

" Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. "

Madonna Ciccone

" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "

Emily Dickinson

" Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. "

" Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. "

Charlize Theron

" Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. "

" Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. "

William J. Brennan, Jr.

" Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. "

Vittorio Alfieri

" Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' "

" Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment. "

" Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin. "

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

" Evil gains work their punishment. "

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