[hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister] Jack Jordan: There's no hitting in this house.
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
The one who has suffered has the right to decide the course of action.... Punishment or Let Go is purely the call of the sufferer.
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for ...
And when Jesus declared, 'It is finished,' He meant it. God’s punishment for our sin was paid for, permanently settled, finished— 100 percent. If you have responded in faith to God’s free pardon through Jesus, then God will never punish you for...
In seeking to understand this gendered difference in the perception of prisoners, it should be kept in mind that as the prison emerged and evolved as the major form of public punishment, women continued to be routinely subjected to forms of punishmen...
God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.
We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.
…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!
What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.
perchè non c'è nessun altro dal quale andare! Bisogna pure che ogni uomo abbia qualche posto dove andare. Poichè ci sono momenti in cui assolutamente bisogna andare da qualche parte!
The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.
...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...
Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?
