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Quotes About Punishable

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
~ Tanith Lee
These lawyers agreed to charge the alleged regicides under the ancient law of treason, which made 'imagining' the death of the king or his heir punishable by death. 'Imagining' could cover a range of acts from direct involvement in a royal death to advocating it. They then agreed to drop the requirement under common law for two witnesses to prove an action. In the forthcoming trials one witness was to be deemed sufficient.
~ Don Jordan
Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We sent a sheik to arrest him if he had the authority, or to warn him, if he had not, that by the laws of Egypt the crime he was attempting to commit was punishable with imprisonment or the bastinado.
~ Mark Twain
Hope is a punishable offence. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
~ Tanith Lee
The crime was a felony punishable by death, which could be avoided by three years of impressment on an American ship of war.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
What had once been sins punishable by the medieval Church against the faithful were thus transformed by the Reformation into crimes punishable by the state, enforceable even against those who did not share the faith.
~ Geoffrey R. Stone
You mean he doesn't instantly hero-worship you? Perish the thought." He scowled at me. "I think I'll make mouthing off to the Beast Lord a punishable offense." "Punishable by what? "Oh, I'll think of something.
~ Ilona Andrews
Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.
~ Leslie Feinberg
Self pity is most destructive & self punishable emotion.Self pity gets you no where. It makes victim of being away from reality. One must have courage to accept oneself with pride & strive to present best of himself.
~ Unknown
There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
~ Bill Engvall
It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that blasphemy is not punishable by death.
~ Pamela Geller
Once something is no longer illicit, punishable, pathologized, or used as lawful basis for raw discrimination or acts of violence, that phenomenon will no longer be able to represent or deliver on subversion, the subcultural, the underground, the fringe, in the same way
~ Maggie Nelson
With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…
~ Margaret Anderson
When the government designates as punishable all play of mind against the state, the moderate liberals come and opine that fun, satire, wit, humor, etc., must have free play anyhow, and genius must enjoy freedom. So not the individual man indeed, but still genius , is to be free. Here the state, or in its name the government, says with perfect right: He who is not for me is against me.
~ Max Stirner