Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector of trans people, we should be focused on what systems of law and administration do to trans people and our interventions should aim to dismantle harmful, violent systems such as criminal punishment and immigration enforcement.
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.
Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts freakin' out. He's like 'the electric chair? That's too good for these people. That's too good for them'. Alright, how do we make the electric chair worse? How about this? They have to pedal a car battery to their own head. Is that ok? Is that enough, Mr. Hitler?
Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
Every vice is already a punishment in itself. . . you don't need a ticket on top of it.
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.
A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder. . . We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.
War. . . is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
I know my grandfather drank occasionally socially, what we call "taking a sip. " And my father never touched the bottle. He condemned my grandfather for doing that, and his punishment to his father was when my grandfather came to visit him from Georgia, he would not allow my grandfather to preach in his church. Even though my classmates very often drank alcohol in my presence and they would try and get me to join in, I felt, no, I didn't need that.