Punishment is such a useless tool, it has no effect on the strong-willed or defiant. All punishment accomplishes is the breeding of more wrath, all the while changing nothing.
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Related All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. JEREMY BENTHAM The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ... HANNAH ARENDT All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted. UNKNOWN Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Whether or not the law is passed, no one should be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment while in... JAMES YEE You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai... HOPE MIRRLEES All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies! ANTHONY T.HINCKS But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ... VICTOR HUGO To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to belie... ERNEST HOLMES The major reason children lie is to escape punishment. The chances are the more a parent or a teache... JACQUI RIVAIT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their... EILEEN CADDY The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave. JENNIFER NIVEN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art... ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat... TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison. MARY EVANS The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me. “Is it true you almost drowned Roamer... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad. JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness. JENNIFER NEVIN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him... JENNIFER NIVEN Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, i... MARQUIS DE SADE There is no such thing as punishment in the abyss, natural consequences bought on by our own folly r... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Without a goal, discipline is nothing but self-punishment. AULIQ ICE It was a punishment vote against the current government, which has done nothing to improve the livin... HORACIO SERPA Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe... MAHATMA GANDHI Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe... MAHATMA GANDHI Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe... MOHANDAS GANDHI Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none i... CONRAD BLACK To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it CATO THE CENSOR The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing VOLTAIRE Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi... LADY GREGORY In the corrupt court there is no possibility to dream or to make contact to love. They are exiled to... DEAN GILMOUR It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that toler... JERRY FALWELL Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. ... GARY BECKER Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment. GRACE POE Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l... DEYTH BANGER And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ? CHARLYN KHATER Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective... DAVID HARSANYI An eye for an eye may make the whole world blind, but a punishment you feel makes it all the more re... DAN BASS Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its en... WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. I think the punishment has to be measured in just doses. The punishment aspect has to be measured to... KARL NUMINEN Now the commissioner, on his own, is announcing a new punishment, and that would be an additional pu... GERALD LEFCOURT I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegan... JENNIFER NIVEN No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous. Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of... MAX NORDAU Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment o... MAX NORDAU There is absolutely no discussion of punishment for the moment in the French approach. FRANCOIS GERE The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by t... OSCAR WILDE No one is nothing. Everyone has a place and a purpose. Some choose their purpose and others have it ... E.J. DIVITT Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen... AYN RAND An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability ... IRWIN SHAW When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER No man is useless while he has a friend. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. MADONNA AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th... JERRY FALWELL Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE This is not an easy thing to do. Despite all the condemnation from states who want us to abolish cap... LAITH KUBBA The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d... PATRICK FITZGERALD Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is fi... CICUT SUTIARSO As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without pun... RON CHERNOW While depression may be a genetic disorder, it has a strong environmental component. And, for a chil... MYRNA WEISSMAN Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for puni... MADONNA CICCONE They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousn... JOHN STEINBECK There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor... SIR AUBREY DE VERE The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. EDWARD BOND An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the abil... IRWIN SHAW When a person has a serious illness, the focus needs to be on treatment, not punishment. It does no ... LINDA COLLINS Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie. BRIAN SPELLMAN In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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We're going to be left with a lot of one-on-ones on the... BRANDON LLOYD You've got to work with this team. As long as you work with them, you can neutralize a lot of what t... BRANDON LINCOLN Definitely. He's opened up another side to us that he hasn't opened up to many people. If people tak... BRANDON LINCOLN It's one of our most important games of the season. The next four games are set up for us. We're loo... BRANDON LINCOLN We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented tea... BRANDON LINCOLN We got our plays going, we got into a rhythm. But it was hard to sustain. BRANDON LINCOLN I think we're a team that once we gain some momentum, we're going to be a tough team to beat. BRANDON LINCOLN We got all the shots we would like to get. We were just out of rhythm offensively. BRANDON LINCOLN Ivan has rededicated himself and is bringing more to the team. He's really shown he wants to be part... BRANDON LINCOLN Diana's story is fantastic because she worked like crazy to make it happen. Along with her family, s... BRANDON LEWIS A lot of hard work finally paid off. My sophomore year we won four games. My junior year we had to s... BRANDON LEWIS It feels a lot like grass. I think practicing on it is going to get us more used to it than the othe... BRANDON LEWIS Our customers measure success in different ways. Some of them want to secure an early retirement. Ot... BRANDON LEWIS We are always pleased to see our customers finding success with our software. Entrepreneurs, by natu... BRANDON LEWIS Some of my friends are scared right now, because the war is going on right now. BRANDON LEE I never expected to hear something like that, I mean you don't hear about people from here that are ... BRANDON LEE I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different p... BRANDON LEE For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. BRANDON LEE Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet e... BRANDON LEE I don't want to be remembered as the son of Bruce Lee. BRANDON LEE A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection,... BRANDON LEE I didn't bet at that time in my life. I have no problem wagering on the game now. BRANDON LANE It's the adrenalin rush. It's the same rush you get when the dealer in a card game turns over the ho... BRANDON LANE We finally made the film eight years later. BRANDON LANE It's that sustained feeling of excitement we are searching for. In a game, you have it every play, a... BRANDON LANE The movie did a great job depicting the crazy run I had in my life. BRANDON LANE The series will involve me flying all over the world and betting on everything imaginable. BRANDON LANE I didn't play college football. Other than that, the story pretty much holds true. BRANDON LANE A lot of generous people donated services and goods for this. BRANDON JONES We see teams all over the league score against a Cover 2 and we just have to attack it. BRANDON JONES We had opportunities to get the ball to the receivers, BRANDON JONES It felt like his whole hand came through my eye, like he broke part of it off in there. I think it's... BRANDON JONES We think that getting out of the semistate is a realistic goal. We've gotten a lot of support for th... BRANDON JONES That's a big turnaround, that hurts you. You're supposed to be up 17-0. BRANDON JONES He gets the ball in his hands, and he hits the openings and makes big plays. BRANDON JONES He just has great hands. I think he has some of the best hands on the team, including wideouts. He g... BRANDON JONES