Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Faith Quotes, Punishment Quotes

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

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

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It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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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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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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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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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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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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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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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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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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

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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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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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