Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Gary Becker
PunishmentMoreRevenueBecauseFine
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
PunishmentBreakCannotOnlySpirits
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham
EvilPunishmentMischiefItself
I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.
Michael Finkel
DeathBelieveMatterPunishmentLike
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Robert Duvall
YouCrimeAcceptPunishmentPay
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
SinPunishmentOutPainfulPart
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Joseph de Maistre
LoveJusticePainPunishmentMuch
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
Conrad Black
AmericanPunishmentAlmostNone
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
FearMenEvilPunishmentOwnRather
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
Reza Aslan
RomeTreasonUnderstandPunishment
It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.
Kurt Vonnegut
FearGenerationSayWillPunishment
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand
WorkStrengthManRewardPunishment
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
TalentFamousCelebrityPunishment
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?
David Fahrenthold
PastLawLookSayPunishmentOffice
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill Maher
GreatThinkYouPunishmentNever
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
Thomas Aquinas
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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley
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If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.
Caryl Chessman
DayGoDefeatedPunishmentNever
I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
Ben Elliot
PeopleThinkSayPunishmentSucker
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna Ciccone
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