Just remember, stealing's punishable by death
There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.
Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.
This is a very grave matter, punishable by. . . well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.
A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party. . . is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow. . . because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.
