Alain de Botton Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Punishment Quotes

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

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A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

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It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

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It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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