The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist. – Monica Crowley
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned. – Deborah Moggach
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. – Comte de Lautreamont
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. – George Orwell
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. – Giacomo Casanova
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn’t go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. – Caryl Chessman
I didn’t really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. – David Knopfler
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. – Naguib Mahfouz
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It’s based on capital punishment. – Kate Millett
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. – Joseph Howe
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment. – Madonna Ciccone
My argument is not that I shouldn’t have been punished, but that the punishment didn’t fit the crime. – Kevin Mitnick
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. – Jerzy Kosinski
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. – Marquis de Lafayette
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. – Lawrence Durrell
