Quotes of: Capital-punishment Keyword

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

What Are You Afraid Of?

Divine punishment are also mercies.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

T. D. Jakes

The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.

Tim Kreider

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

Kahlil Gibran

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

Kaki King

When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.

Michael Bassey Johnson

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maximilien Robespierre

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Kit Bond

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Nawal El Saadawi

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Maximilien Robespierre

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

D. H. Lawrence

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Margaret Carlson

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Ernest Holmes

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Criss Jami