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.
Oscar Wilde
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Naguib Mahfouz
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Jerry Falwell
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Joseph De Maistre
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
Edwin M. Stanton
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Irwin Shaw
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
Benjamin Tucker
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
Gregg Easterbrook
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Paul Simon
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Ron Chernow
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
Aaron Neville
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
Benjamin Tucker
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
Wilhelm Frick
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
Marilyn vos Savant
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