Punishment Quotes - Page 8

• I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, May, Want

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness of our antibiotics so that they grow faster, and then slaughter them with little regard to their suffering so that we can feed off their corpses, will seem to most people unthinkably cruel and barbarous - sort of in the way that we think of medieval punishments, or Europeans today think of the death penalty.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Abortion, Kind

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• As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Population, Demon

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social state has been decimated. And the question becomes, how is finance capital, how does the 1 percent now resort to governing? And they govern basically through a form of lawlessness and what I call the punishing state, in which we've had a punishment creep, and now it moves from the prison to almost every institution in society, from airports to schools to social services.

  Henry Giroux

  Moving, School, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance. There is more at work than stupidity and a flight from responsibility on the part of educators, parents and politicians who maintain these laws, there is also the growing sentiment that young people constitute a threat to adults and that the only way to deal with them is to subject them to mind-crushing punishment.

  Henry Giroux

  Crush, Girl, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Racism, Crow, Suffering

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Past, Ethos

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Reading, Ideas, Life And Death

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations on the atonement that Christ could have offered up a perfect act of penitence instead of punishment, and that this would have been an acceptable offering suitable to remit our sinfulness.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Reading, Offering, Views

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• 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.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Brother, Stuff, Psychological

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there's an industry making money and profiting off punishment.

  Ava DuVernay

  Firsts, Way, Prison

  Source: deadline.com

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• What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Understanding, Tower Of Babel, Towers

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

  Kofi Annan

  School, Complaining, Done

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• Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Retributive Justice

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows that transgender people who are incarcerated should be provided with these medically necessary procedures. In cases where they're not, it is considered a violation of those rights.

  Allyson Robinson

  Rights, People, Citizens

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• I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Eye, Thinking, Deserve You

  Source: medium.com

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• Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Son, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

  Louie Anderson

  Worry, Doubt, Add

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• I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Holocaust, Machines

  Source: collider.com

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• Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

  Joshua Mohr

  Self, Needs, Sides

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

  Margaret Atwood

  Cities, Oil, Interesting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the United States within the UN prevents implementation. At the same time, several African leaders are being prosecuted for their crimes against humanity and participation in genocide: a double standard of sorts, given the impunity accorded to the West and Israel.

  Richard A. Falk

  Israel, Leader, Humanity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• On the one side, I welcome prosecutions of individuals such as Pinochet, and would welcome the indictment, prosecution, and punishment of Kissinger. On the other side is the geopolitical reality that only those in the global South are likely to experience the impact of Universal Jurisdiction.

  Richard A. Falk

  Reality, Impact, Sides

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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