Saint Augustine Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Punishment Quotes

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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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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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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There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift 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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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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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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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

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

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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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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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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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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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and 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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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

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