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Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward - but a big punishment if you fail.
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse
I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.
With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!
If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.
Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.
Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.