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

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It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

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

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Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

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

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Fear is secured by a dread of 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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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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

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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

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

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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.

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Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

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