Phrases about 'Punishment'

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

Author: Conrad Black - British Businessman
American , Punishment , Rehabilitation

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.

Author: Wilhelm Frick - German Celebrity
Moral , Think , Legal , Punishment

The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.

Author: Thomas Becket - English Clergyman
Man , Rights , Victory , Punishment

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

Author: Xenophon - Greek Soldier
Escape , Desire , Power , Punishment

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Author: Jayne Mansfield - American Actress
You , Wrong , Way , Punishment

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Author: Bruno Bettelheim - Italian Writer
Best , Will , Self-Respect , Punishment

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.

Author: Christopher McDougall - American Author
Easy , Fun , Eating , Punishment

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Author: Georges Bernanos - French Author
Knowledge , Faith , Speak , Punishment

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Author: Steve Allen - American Entertainer
People , Matter , Tomorrow , Punishment

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

Author: Cesare Beccaria - Italian Judge
Men , Justice , Illusion , Punishment