A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment.
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Happiness is not a reward it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment it is a result.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.
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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.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence.. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
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The law demands good works and uses its terrorrejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc. As motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basisnot from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who
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The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
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