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• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Elizabeth Fry

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• If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

  Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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• …there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

  Markus Zusak

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

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• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  Ida B. Wells

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• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  Ida B. Wells

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• The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

  Paul Gillmor

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• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

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• We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

  Paul Elmer More

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• Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

  Bill Bennett

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• And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• Wickedness is its own punishment.

  Francis Quarles

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• I’m currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

  Gil Gerard

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• God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  Barbara Deming

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• I haven’t took no punishment. There’s nothing cool about taking punishment.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

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• I’m not in this sport to take punishment.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

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• I contend that it’s impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

  Tony Campolo

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• Let’s not talk punishment.

  George Steinbrenner

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