Oscar Wilde Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Community Quotes

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

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

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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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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

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