We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.
Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, each of us can become clean and the burden of our rebellion will be lifted. Remember, repentance is not punishment. It is the hope-filled path to a more glorious future.
The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government. . . Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment.
What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.
It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. . . . The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
War. . . is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.
It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.