Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
Life punishes those who come too late.
I love the one who punishes me well.
It's customary when great events happen that the U. S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with death, it denies the humanity and dignity of the victim and transgresses the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. That day will be a great day for our country, for it will be a great day for our Constitution.
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation. ' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character. The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it. Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance.
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.
The only way love punishes in by suffering.
How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting. . . but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive. . . . it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.
A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.
