Anton Chekhov Quotes, Years Quotes, Punishment Quotes

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

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

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

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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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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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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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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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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

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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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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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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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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

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Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

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