I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
Only he who has the power to punish can pardon.
Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.
Maria Pappadimos: They're burning Mandrakos in punishment.
I do not believe having a baby is punishment.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justified by allowable self-preference, is a subject of moral disapprobation for that failure, but not for ...
Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the horrible. In the name of philanthropy, imbecile crimin...
(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only moral fiction of the modern world--because in a mystery, you were guaranteed to see that the bad got punished, the good got rewarded...
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.
Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
