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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. (Quote by - Andre Gide)

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds. (Quote by - Charles S. Dutton)

Every sin brings its punishment with it. (Quote by - Romanian Proverb)

Evil gains work their punishment. (Quote by - Sophocles)

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Send them into everlasting Coventry. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. (Quote by - Kamisese Mara)

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! (Quote by - Gil Gerard)

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. (Quote by - Robert Baden-Powell)

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. (Quote by - Ovid)

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)

Punishment is justice for the unjust. (Quote by - St. Augustine)

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. (Quote by - Max Nordau)

Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)

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. (Quote by - Ellen Key)

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. (Quote by - Charlize Theron)

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. (Quote by - Bible)

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. (Quote by - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon)

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. (Quote by - Ida B. Wells)

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. (Quote by - Bible)

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. (Quote by - Jayne Mansfield)

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