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We were just realizing that there was a problem in our classroom, a lot of students had their heads down, we knew that the teachers would have their own laws in place to punish students [like] take their phones, we thought there has got to a better solution to this problem. – Rob Richardson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If their (ABC's) information is accurate, the burden is on the Iraqi Government to punish those involved and on the Departments of State and Defense to insist that they do so and to offer support in investigating and punishing those involved as the law calls for, otherwise the Iraqi units involved should be deemed ineligible for U.S. aid. – Patrick Leahy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Singapore judicial system’s shameful recourse to using torture – in the form of caning – to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country’s international reputation. – Phil Robertson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In Mexico, no one gets punished, if you don’t punish anyone, impunity becomes a perverse incentive for corruption. – Arturo Gonzalez de Aragon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't think anybody can punish these parents any more than what they've been punished, this is something they will carry with them and live with the rest of their lives. – Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We will win this battle, and we're going to win it by democratic means, but also by applying force that is needed to punish those who need to be punished. – Oscar Ortiz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What Pope Francis can do is solidify his base among the more centrist and center-left (bishops) and make it clear that he doesn't want to punish or exclude anyone, but also make it clear that he is going to continue with this basic approach, which is pastoral outreach. – James Bretzke	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They're under pressure inside to punish people like him, especially among Salafis. It is a question of the legitimacy of the state. You have to remember those people are very influential at a street level. – Mustafa Alani	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The last two years have fundamentally changed the dynamics of this debate [on the tax code], as we have seen the weaponization of the IRS, as we have seen the Obama administration using the IRS in a partisan manner to punish it’s political enemies. – Republican Sen.	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If you have just a few minutes, hop on that activate and punish those voters! – Marlon Marshall	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Aren't you ashamed of what you are doing? why are you putting him (my brother Oleg) in prison? To punish me even harder? – Alexei Navalny	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Why are you putting him (my brother Oleg) in prison? To punish me even harder? – Alexei Navalny	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need to know how to investigate and punish, without hurting Petrobras, we have to punish people, not destroy companies. – Dilma Rousseff	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Of course, we need better laws to punish those who rape and buy and sell women, but we also need to get into the consciousness of young men and young women to make them think differently, the message for girls is to stand up to sexual violence and the message for boys is not to dominate, but to have sex with equality and participation. We want to eroticise equality rather than eroticise domination, which is what many superhero comics do. – Ruchira Gupta	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
While oil prices are below $80 the majors will be paying dividends out of debt. They can live with higher gearing but they will not cut dividends, majors could easily live with gearing of up to 40 percent (of equity) and the market won't punish them so much because they are resilient. – Iain Reed	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The idea that we would punish a victim for being a victim is reprehensible. – Shelly Hickman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don’t give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it. – Perry Brass	added by JP03 9 years ago
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it. – David Ogilvy	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. – Frederick II of Prussia	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. – Michel Foucault	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Lévi-Strauss	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they dont like, provided the matter relates to sexual impurity or has a tendency to excite lustful thoughts. This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. – A. W. Tozer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. – Steve Prefontaine	added by anonymous 13 years ago

We were just realizing that there was a problem in our classroom, a lot of students had their heads down, we knew that the teachers would have their own laws in place to punish students [like] take their phones, we thought there has got to a better solution to this problem.

– Rob Richardson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If their (ABC's) information is accurate, the burden is on the Iraqi Government to punish those involved and on the Departments of State and Defense to insist that they do so and to offer support in investigating and punishing those involved as the law calls for, otherwise the Iraqi units involved should be deemed ineligible for U.S. aid.

– Patrick Leahy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Singapore judicial system’s shameful recourse to using torture – in the form of caning – to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country’s international reputation.

– Phil Robertson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In Mexico, no one gets punished, if you don’t punish anyone, impunity becomes a perverse incentive for corruption.

– Arturo Gonzalez de Aragon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don't think anybody can punish these parents any more than what they've been punished, this is something they will carry with them and live with the rest of their lives.

– Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We will win this battle, and we're going to win it by democratic means, but also by applying force that is needed to punish those who need to be punished.

– Oscar Ortiz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What Pope Francis can do is solidify his base among the more centrist and center-left (bishops) and make it clear that he doesn't want to punish or exclude anyone, but also make it clear that he is going to continue with this basic approach, which is pastoral outreach.

– James Bretzke

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They're under pressure inside to punish people like him, especially among Salafis. It is a question of the legitimacy of the state. You have to remember those people are very influential at a street level.

– Mustafa Alani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The last two years have fundamentally changed the dynamics of this debate [on the tax code], as we have seen the weaponization of the IRS, as we have seen the Obama administration using the IRS in a partisan manner to punish it’s political enemies.

– Republican Sen.

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If you have just a few minutes, hop on that activate and punish those voters!

– Marlon Marshall

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Aren't you ashamed of what you are doing? why are you putting him (my brother Oleg) in prison? To punish me even harder?

– Alexei Navalny

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Why are you putting him (my brother Oleg) in prison? To punish me even harder?

– Alexei Navalny

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We need to know how to investigate and punish, without hurting Petrobras, we have to punish people, not destroy companies.

– Dilma Rousseff

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Of course, we need better laws to punish those who rape and buy and sell women, but we also need to get into the consciousness of young men and young women to make them think differently, the message for girls is to stand up to sexual violence and the message for boys is not to dominate, but to have sex with equality and participation. We want to eroticise equality rather than eroticise domination, which is what many superhero comics do.

– Ruchira Gupta

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

While oil prices are below $80 the majors will be paying dividends out of debt. They can live with higher gearing but they will not cut dividends, majors could easily live with gearing of up to 40 percent (of equity) and the market won't punish them so much because they are resilient.

– Iain Reed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The idea that we would punish a victim for being a victim is reprehensible.

– Shelly Hickman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don’t give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

– Perry Brass

added by JP03
9 years ago

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

– David Ogilvy

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

– Frederick II of Prussia

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

– Michel Foucault

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

– Claude Lévi-Strauss

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they dont like, provided the matter relates to sexual impurity or has a tendency to excite lustful thoughts. This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

– A. W. Tozer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

– Steve Prefontaine

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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