Oscar Wilde Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Artistic Life Quotes

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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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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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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

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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

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

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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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I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

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

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

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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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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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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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

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

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