He painted, quietly, without fine words but with assurance and conviction, his belief in the punishment of mankind. God was almost now upon the threshold of their house. He was at the very gates of their city, and with Him was coming a doom as sure and awful as the sentence of the earthly judge on his earthly victim. "Punishment! Punishment! We have grown in this careless age to laugh at punishment. A future life? There is no future life.英文原著 · 《The Captives》
Very true. And what from vice and injustice? If you are not able to answer at once, ask yourself whither we go with the sick, and to whom we take them. To the physicians, Socrates. And to whom do we go with the unjust and intemperate? To the judges, you mean. -Who are to punish them? And do not those who rightly punish others, punish them in accordance with a certain rule of justice?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
What is the real basis of punishment, however? The notion of a free will, the idea that man is at all times a free agent for good or evil; if he chooses the latter, he must be made to pay the price. Although this theory has long been exploded, and thrown upon the dustheap, it continues to be applied daily by the entire machinery of government, turning it into the most cruel and brutal tormentor of human life. The only reason for its continuance is the still more cruel notion that the greater the terror punishment spreads, the more certain its preventative effect.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"God punishes me! God punishes me!" she said over and over again taking no heed of her words. She had always been given, by fits and starts, to mystical piety. Then she covered my face, my neck, and my hair with kisses and tears. May all that we suffered, the dead and I, be forgiven you, poor mother, for the sincerity of those tears at that moment!英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
He would return to bondage. The law would claim him as an absconder, and would mete out to him such punishment as was fitting. Perhaps he might escape severest punishment, as a reward for his exertions in saving the child. He might consider himself fortunate if such was permitted to him. Fortunate! Suppose he did not go back at all, but wandered away into the wilderness and died? Better death than such a doom as his. Yet need he die?英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Launceston: Henry Dowling, 1,846. "Backhouse's Voyages" [ut supra]
CHAPTERS VII., VIII., IX., XII. Adventures of Martin Cash [ut supra], pp.133-141; Cases of George Armstrong, "Pine Tree Jack", and Alexander Campbell. Punishment of the "gag" and "bridle". Correpondence relating to the Rev. Rogers [ut supra],pp. 41-43. Punishment of the "gag" and "bridle".英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
This manifests in rotten behavior because I subconsciously believe I deserve to be punished, but being famous, I'm never punished, so I act out even more.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
- Yes. - So you're saying - working for me is punishment? - As far as I'm concerned, this whole conversation's punishment.美剧 · 《Suits》