This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lord Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, First Viscount Samuel
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Character | Evil | Punishment |
Simeon ben Yohai, aka Simon ben Yohai or Rashbi or Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
A liar's punishment is that he is not believed even when he tells the truth.
Character | Punishment | Truth |
This is the punishment of a liar: He is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Punishment | Truth | Wisdom |
The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Agatha Christie, fully Dame Agatha Miller Christie
To say that every crime brings its own punishment is by way of being a platitude, and yet in my opinion nothing can be truer.
Crime | Nothing | Opinion | Punishment | Wisdom |
The object of punishment is threefold: for just retribution; for the protection of society; for the reformation of the offender.
Object | Punishment | Society | Wisdom |
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Capital punishment | Charity | Crime | Poverty | Punishment | Wisdom | Wrong |
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
Punishment | War | Wisdom |
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in the punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Good | Government | Health | Little | Observation | People | Punishment | Rebellion | Rights | Sound | Truth | Wisdom | World |
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Mind | Punishment | Will | Wisdom |
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use owe make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
Eternal | Happy | Opportunity | Punishment | Repentance | Sentiment | Wisdom |