Isn’t watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?

The punishment for rape should be castration.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

Most people, if not all, are merely masked amoralists. Their mental state is governed by dark energy — they tend to steal, destroy, rape rather than to give a present, construct, love. Most people around...

Look at me whilst you beg me, little one…

I think the punishment has to be measured in just doses. The punishment aspect has to be measured to the degree of intent.

I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence designed for criminals who don’t have the economic means to cover it up....

The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century, and even in the early eighteenth century, it was not, therefore, with all its theatre of terror, a lingering hang-over from...

We cannot talk about any punishment until we have the results of the B test.

Hard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for...

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and...

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante’s Charon in his rowboat on the river...

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one’s own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?

With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my breasts and kissing me, he is full of congratulations.‘Well done, Megan, you took...

What?’ He cried, darting at him a look of fury: ‘Dare you still implore the Eternal’s mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite’s part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I...

He deserves every punishment he gets. The guy’s 81 years old, so he’s probably not going to make it through his prison term. At least he’s getting it in the end.

When I look in the mirror… I know that I belong to him…that I will never be the same again. I’ve let him punish me…

Face it,” Gary told her kindly. “You’ll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn’t what they’re really trying...

AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

And if there’s bad behaviour,” Mma Potokwane went on. “If there’s bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when...

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

the punishment he deserves.

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Do you know what Hell is? …No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches...

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.

But protest that priests are ‘no worse’ than other groups or than men in general is a dire indictment of the profession. It is surprising that this attitude is championed by the Church authorities. Although...

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Yes, sir,” I whimper, physically fighting the urge to push myself backonto your finger. I want you inside me so much. I would beg if I thoughtyou’d take pity on me, but I know you....

This is outrageous. This is a grave punishment.

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

The Cubans are being punished with sanctions in the same way we are,

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins – like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you’ll just ask me, and I will do it –

But what if your kid runs into the street in front of a car? Don’t you have to use Method I?” … If a child develops a habit of running into the street, a parent...

I am such a bad girl,” she thought. Yet…

I… must… not… look… like… a… baboon’s… backside.

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

I had authority issues. In my defense, my math teacher had it coming. She’d made me write one hundred on the black board, so I wrote one, zero, zero in words since one hundred consisted...

Let the punishment match the offense.

I want you to be afraid of making me angry…this will help you to remember how to behave.

There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.

I think my reputation will look after itself,” Holmes said. “If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me.And I had to know.Once again, I crawled away from my bed and pushed the computer cord back into the socket.It took three minutes.I quickly...

special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen Mac Cormack, for her advice during the early stages of this project; and...

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

WILL ALIGNMENTDespot’s ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schoolsKamil Ali

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.