No more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.
God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow-men suffice, aided by ourselves.
Evil never goes unpunished. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether two and two do make four.
