31 quotes found
“As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.”
“In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.”
“I'm more haunted by how what I've said and the things I've done have caused harm to myself and others than I am worried that God will punish me for being bad. Because in the end, we aren't punished...”
“And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.”
“Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shacking up with a German assassin. She felt tears again in her eyes, boiling. For all I have committ...”
“One is punished most for ones virtues.”
“I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.”
“Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.”
“The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the ...”
“A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.”
“To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment. ”
“To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”
“I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.”
“Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).”
“My punishment is greater than I can bear.”
“My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.”
“Whoso sheddeth man's blood by a man shall his blood be shed.”
“One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.”
“No one should be twice punished for one crime.”
“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea.”
