“The object of punishment is to… lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.”
Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland (May 27, 1885).
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James Allen (1864–1912) British philosophical writer
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Context: Whoever does not see his friends in a good light loves them little. To see in a good light. — Whoever does not see in a good light is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover. Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good.
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“Every state, like every theology, assumes man to be fundamentally bad and wicked.”
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937), E.H. Carr, p. 453
“God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.”
John Green book Looking for Alaska
Chip "the Colonel" Martin, p. 71
Looking for Alaska (2005)
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) American activist
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 180
“There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 366
“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
Ilana Mercer South African writer
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