Punitive Measures Quotes & Sayings

Let the stars guide you to your sacred-path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life. — Marjorie Dannenfelser

When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for? — Colin Beavan

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens. — Ari Fleischer

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat. — Christine O'Donnell

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. — Mahatma Gandhi

The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim. — R.C. Sproul

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table. — Craig Venter

I show up because I'm an asshole, and I want to have a good time. — Gabourey Sidibe

If there is a class war-and there is-it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones. — Maurice Cowling

The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether. — Ralph Barton Perry

Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised. — Keeley Hawes

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products. — B.F. Skinner

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days." — Fleur Adcock

The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting. — Lewis Black

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals. — Jack Kerouac