Zitat des Tages über Bestrafen / Punish:
It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
This is 'Southland,' so we don't editorialize.
I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.
Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.
To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
