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Letter "P" » Punishment
«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.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
corporal, corporal punishment, hardening, humiliate, humiliated, humiliating, ineffective, Physical pain, receives
«I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.»
«In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Punishment,
Speech
| Keywords:
free speech, penalty, poems
«Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.»
«Laws undertake to punish only overt acts»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Justice,
Punishment
| Keywords:
overt, punish, undertake
«I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws»
Author: Jerry Falwell
(Founder, Pastor)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
adultery, dishonesty, flaws, genetics
«Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Punishment
| Keywords:
assassins, entertain, expediency, misgiving, misgivings, penalty, regarding, The Assassins
«Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity,
Country,
Doctrine,
Forgiveness,
Humility,
Love,
Punishment,
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
doctrine, haughtiness, incompatible
«He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Evil,
Punishment
| Keywords:
commands, evil, punish
«Fear follows crime, and is its punishment»
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