Punishment
Researcher Jon Atack has expressed concern that, in the wrong hands, Scientology ethics can be wielded arbitrarily and absurdly, such as in the 1960s when British Saint Hill Scientologists declared a local pie shop "Suppressive" for not carrying apple pie in sufficient quantities to their liking.
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Famous quotes containing the word punishment:
“Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.”
—Hannah More (1745–1833)
“Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Marijuana is ... self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)