Quotes of: Capital-punishment Keyword

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Ernest Holmes

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Conrad Black

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

George Weinberg

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Haim G. Ginott

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Hannah More

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Juvenal

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

Dennis Hastert

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James Russell Lowell

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Tim Robbins

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

Abu Bakar Bashir

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

Aaron Neville

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Barbara Deming

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Mark McKinnon

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

Charles Duhigg

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

Tom Tancredo

You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!

Life

When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform to the law as written; then the standard of the just or the unjust, wh...

Beccaria: 'on Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings

It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable man, everyone, that is, whose ideas have a certain interconnection and whose feelings accord with those o...

Beccaria: 'on Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings

On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on "the tree." That is the mildest camp punishment. They tie a man's hands together behind his back, palms facing out and fingers pointing backward. Then they turn h...

Priestblock 25487 : a memoir of Dachau

Narrator: [voice-over] The Prussian service was considerably worse than the English. The life that the private soldier led was a frightful one. Punishment was incessant, and every officer had the right to inflict it. The gauntlet was the most common ...

Barry Lyndon

The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.

Ben Shapiro