Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.
I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.
Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.
Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies,. . . and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.
What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments. " He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.
If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
You don’t need to worry any more or punish yourself about food. It is totally counterproducti ve to stress yourself out about weight loss because that same stress causes you to put weight on.
I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.
I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would. . . but I just can't. " "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did. . . " "But you're the king. " "That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that. " Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.
Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.
For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.
I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
