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The governor got very angry about the position that Disney took, and it seems like he’s decided to retaliate against us. … in effect, to seek to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right, and that just seems really wrong to me – against any company or individual, but particularly against a company that means so much to the state that you live in. – Bob Iger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Justice Clarence Thomas is a great man, and the Democrats’ latest political attacks are simply repackaged smears in a 31-year campaign of hatred to punish and delegitimize a conservative Black Justice who thinks for himself. – Mike Davis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Quite frankly, for me personally, it put me right back to the beginning, to see the justice system fail, then our hope for justice through our legal system failed. It failed to punish a cold, cruel, heinous and atrocious murderer to the fullest extent of the law. – Tony Montalto	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It shows Beijing is doing everything it can to punish human rights advocates and using cruel methods to crush China’s civil rights movement. – Teng Biao	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They were not there to serve and protect, or even to apprehend ; they were there to punish and dominate. – Steve Cohen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Of course, when humans make mistakes they are held to account, the problem is that you ca n’t make a machine responsible for its mistakes … How do you punish it ? How do you sanction it ? You ca n’t. – Alan Winfield	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He’s dangerous to the party and dangerous to the country. that’s not to punish him but to send the signal to everyone, including Washington, that he has to go. – Peter King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is never a good thing when a state tries to legislate morality, the new code puts civil liberties at risk and gives the state powerful tools to punish ideological, moral and political offenses. – Zachary Abuza	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Right now,government officials across the country—including the Bidenadministration—argue in court that individuals and religious organizations who love and work with people from all walks of life should face civil and criminal penalties if they don’t abandon their beliefs on this issue, make no mistake, this bill will be used by officials and activists to punish and ruin those who do not share the government’s view on marriage. – Kristen Waggoner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Make no mistake, this bill will be used by officials and activists to punish and ruin those who do not share the government’s view on marriage. – Kristen Waggoner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today, and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive, the problem is not the Memphis police department. The problem is the judicial system that will not punish. – Jim Strickland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda. – Bertrand Russell	added by Normando 1 year ago
Whether it's Alex Jones or Rudy Giuliani or a 2020 election denier, it's one thing to spout conspiracy theories on a podcast or social media, but courts demand actual facts and evidence. And, importantly, courts can and will impose accountability and punish people who spread lies for illegal purposes. – Elie Honig	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to clarify that under Michigan law, access to abortion is not only legal, but constitutionally protected, if the 1931 law goes into effect, it will punish women and strip away their right to make decisions about their own bodies. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Today’s decision dramatically escalates the stakes of the 2022 elections, and we’re making sure Americans have the tools they need to channel their anger into action, this on-the-ground organizing work will help elect Democrats who will fight to protect women’s right to make their own health care decisions and ensure the GOP’s cruel agenda to making abortion illegal and punish women is front and center for voters across the Senate battlegrounds. – Christie Roberts	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It felt weird being in a house with my dad and his girlfriend with none of my brothers, i was just so alone. He was a truck driver, so it was very seldom that we saw him. But that’s how he paid the bills. I also became really sensitive about my weight and the things that I ate. I think it was a way to punish Shasta Groene. I developed an eating disorder at a very young age. If I ate, I made Shasta Groene throw up. I then started self-harming. I was hiding a lot from my dad. And then he got throat cancer. He almost died from it. So much has happened that I never fully got to heal. – Shasta Groene	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This isn't a case about being compensated for serving time which Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey shouldn't have served. This is about returning people their own money that was wrongfully taken from them in connection with their convictions, so every penny that is part of this settlement is a reminder of all the ways that we punish people as part of the war on drugs. – Matthew Segal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Punitive damages, on the other hand, are to punish someone for their wrongful conduct. – Neama Rahmani	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I knew they were going to punish me. – Rudy Salas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Often international criminal investigations begin with the' crime base' -- authenticated images, witness testimonies and other evidence concerning killings, torture, rape or other prohibited offenses which may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity -- and proceed upward along a chain of military or political authority to demonstrate the culpability of those who ordered, or who knew of but failed to prevent/punish, the commission of such crimes. – James Goldston	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If it had been handled properly, if they would have looked at the video — they’ve looked at the video every single time this year — the kid was laying on the floor. Wyatt was laying on the floor. And they’re going to punish those guys( the officials) ? No, they’re not punishing those guys. They’re punishing this guy right here because they did n’t do their job. – Jim Boeheim	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our hearts are with the Ukrainians, we would love to be able to punish the Russians and stop importing their energy, but efforts to do that will make energy more expensive. – Michael Shellenberger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The world must respond with all its economic might to punish Russia for the crimes it has already committed, hit Russia’s economy now and hit it hard. – Dmytro Kuleba	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Colorado has weaponized its law to silence speech it disagrees with, to compel speech it approves of, and to punish anyone who dares to dissent, colorado’s law — and others like it — are a clear and present danger to every American’s constitutionally protected freedoms and the very existence of a diverse and free nation. – Kristen Waggoner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

The governor got very angry about the position that Disney took, and it seems like he’s decided to retaliate against us. … in effect, to seek to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right, and that just seems really wrong to me – against any company or individual, but particularly against a company that means so much to the state that you live in.

– Bob Iger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Justice Clarence Thomas is a great man, and the Democrats’ latest political attacks are simply repackaged smears in a 31-year campaign of hatred to punish and delegitimize a conservative Black Justice who thinks for himself.

– Mike Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Quite frankly, for me personally, it put me right back to the beginning, to see the justice system fail, then our hope for justice through our legal system failed. It failed to punish a cold, cruel, heinous and atrocious murderer to the fullest extent of the law.

– Tony Montalto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It shows Beijing is doing everything it can to punish human rights advocates and using cruel methods to crush China’s civil rights movement.

– Teng Biao

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They were not there to serve and protect, or even to apprehend ; they were there to punish and dominate.

– Steve Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of course, when humans make mistakes they are held to account, the problem is that you ca n’t make a machine responsible for its mistakes … How do you punish it ? How do you sanction it ? You ca n’t.

– Alan Winfield

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s dangerous to the party and dangerous to the country. that’s not to punish him but to send the signal to everyone, including Washington, that he has to go.

– Peter King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is never a good thing when a state tries to legislate morality, the new code puts civil liberties at risk and gives the state powerful tools to punish ideological, moral and political offenses.

– Zachary Abuza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Right now,government officials across the country—including the Bidenadministration—argue in court that individuals and religious organizations who love and work with people from all walks of life should face civil and criminal penalties if they don’t abandon their beliefs on this issue, make no mistake, this bill will be used by officials and activists to punish and ruin those who do not share the government’s view on marriage.

– Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Make no mistake, this bill will be used by officials and activists to punish and ruin those who do not share the government’s view on marriage.

– Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today, and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive, the problem is not the Memphis police department. The problem is the judicial system that will not punish.

– Jim Strickland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

– Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
1 year ago

Whether it's Alex Jones or Rudy Giuliani or a 2020 election denier, it's one thing to spout conspiracy theories on a podcast or social media, but courts demand actual facts and evidence. And, importantly, courts can and will impose accountability and punish people who spread lies for illegal purposes.

– Elie Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to clarify that under Michigan law, access to abortion is not only legal, but constitutionally protected, if the 1931 law goes into effect, it will punish women and strip away their right to make decisions about their own bodies.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today’s decision dramatically escalates the stakes of the 2022 elections, and we’re making sure Americans have the tools they need to channel their anger into action, this on-the-ground organizing work will help elect Democrats who will fight to protect women’s right to make their own health care decisions and ensure the GOP’s cruel agenda to making abortion illegal and punish women is front and center for voters across the Senate battlegrounds.

– Christie Roberts

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It felt weird being in a house with my dad and his girlfriend with none of my brothers, i was just so alone. He was a truck driver, so it was very seldom that we saw him. But that’s how he paid the bills. I also became really sensitive about my weight and the things that I ate. I think it was a way to punish Shasta Groene. I developed an eating disorder at a very young age. If I ate, I made Shasta Groene throw up. I then started self-harming. I was hiding a lot from my dad. And then he got throat cancer. He almost died from it. So much has happened that I never fully got to heal.

– Shasta Groene

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This isn't a case about being compensated for serving time which Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey shouldn't have served. This is about returning people their own money that was wrongfully taken from them in connection with their convictions, so every penny that is part of this settlement is a reminder of all the ways that we punish people as part of the war on drugs.

– Matthew Segal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Punitive damages, on the other hand, are to punish someone for their wrongful conduct.

– Neama Rahmani

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I knew they were going to punish me.

– Rudy Salas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Often international criminal investigations begin with the' crime base' -- authenticated images, witness testimonies and other evidence concerning killings, torture, rape or other prohibited offenses which may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity -- and proceed upward along a chain of military or political authority to demonstrate the culpability of those who ordered, or who knew of but failed to prevent/punish, the commission of such crimes.

– James Goldston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If it had been handled properly, if they would have looked at the video — they’ve looked at the video every single time this year — the kid was laying on the floor. Wyatt was laying on the floor. And they’re going to punish those guys( the officials) ? No, they’re not punishing those guys. They’re punishing this guy right here because they did n’t do their job.

– Jim Boeheim

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our hearts are with the Ukrainians, we would love to be able to punish the Russians and stop importing their energy, but efforts to do that will make energy more expensive.

– Michael Shellenberger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The world must respond with all its economic might to punish Russia for the crimes it has already committed, hit Russia’s economy now and hit it hard.

– Dmytro Kuleba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Colorado has weaponized its law to silence speech it disagrees with, to compel speech it approves of, and to punish anyone who dares to dissent, colorado’s law — and others like it — are a clear and present danger to every American’s constitutionally protected freedoms and the very existence of a diverse and free nation.

– Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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