Mite

“Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.”
― Alexander the Great

“She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.”
― A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok

“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.”
― M.F. Moonzajer