The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.
I told [ David Lange] he was crazy, because you can't have an alliance relationship if you refuse access to their ships. And the Americans wanted to punish him very severely and I intervened there and softened them somewhat. They wanted to really take some tough, reactive measures to New Zealand.
If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
Will you punish me forever?
Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.
I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.
For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
God does not punish us for our sins but by them.
There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.