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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

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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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Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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

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I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

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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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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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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

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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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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

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I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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

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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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