Famous quotes containing the words punishment and/or mechanism:
“Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)