Paulo Coelho Quotes, Law Quotes, Punishment Quotes

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

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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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Punishment follows close on crime.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

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I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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Fear is secured by a dread of 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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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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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I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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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.

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