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...
Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable.
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
