„The Cataphrygians brought in also several other superstitions: such as were the doctrine of Ghosts, and of their punishment in Purgatory, with prayers and oblations for mitigating that punishment, as Tertullian teaches in his books De Anima and De Monogamia. They used also the sign of the cross as a charm.“

— Isaac Newton

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„This legible lesson, this ritual recording, must be repeated as often as possible; the punishments must be a school rather than a festival; an ever-open book rather than a ceremony. The duration that makes the punishment effective for the guilty is also useful for the spectators. They must be able to consult at each moment the permanent lexicon of crime and punishment. A secret punishment is a punishment half wasted. Children should be allowed to come to the places where the penalty is being carried out; there they will attend their classes in civics. And grown men will periodically relearn the laws. Let us conceive of places of punishment as a Garden of the Laws that families would visit on Sundays.“
— Michel Foucault
„A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Years ago I read a man named Machado de Assis who wrote a book called Dom Casmurro.“
— Maya Angelou
„It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.“
— Carl Sagan
„You have a book that’s also a face?“
— Cassandra Clare
„Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people“
— Heinrich Heine