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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.
I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries!
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.
I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.
I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.
The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind
I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.