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Punishment

«The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars.»
«Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons»
Author: Richard Wright | About: Heart, Punishment, Reality | Keywords: copied, prisons, realities
«Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol.»
«Punishment is lame, but it comes»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | About: Punishment | Keywords: lame
«One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others»
Author: Juvenal | About: Punishment | Keywords: confers, diadem, infamous, meets
«Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.»
«Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.»
«Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Mankind, Men, Punishment, Sin | Keywords: punished, sins
«Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.»
«Let the punishment fit the crime»
Author: Proverb | About: Punishment | Keywords: crime, Crime and Punishment, fit, punishment

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