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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Georges Bernanos

Faith

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Jeremy Bentham

Evil

Punishment

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Robert Baden-Powell

Habits

Punishment

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine

Justice

Punishment

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Richard Attenborough

Life

Punishment

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.