Anton Chekhov Quotes, Years Quotes, Punishment Quotes

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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

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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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Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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

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

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

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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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Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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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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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

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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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It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

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