Quotes by Punishment Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. Abraham Lincoln punishment prison world The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately. Abraham Lincoln merit punishment trying We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it. Adel al-Jubeir punishment iran years If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew. Adolf Hitler punishment hate blood This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time. Adolf Hitler punishment roles games Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you. Aeschylus punishment feet justice Vices are their own punishment Aesop punishment wisdom life Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret. Agatha Christie punishment secret evil Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. Alain de Botton paying-taxes punishment gratitude 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. Alan Curbishley punishment fit football Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. Albert Bushnell Hart punishment race justice Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. Albert Camus death-penalty punishment murder There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus punishment work success Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. Albert Camus punishment dying death The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus punishment rocks fall Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. Albert Camus punishment intuition law A fate is not a punishment. Albert Camus punishment fate There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics. Albert Einstein punishment sorry people 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. Albert Einstein punishment law ideas Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge. Albert Pierrepoint punishment revenge views 1234567891011»