“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.”

“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?”

“Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree”

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

“we must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice we must not act without. Who am i-though i have the power to do it- to punish and reward, playing with men's destinies?”

“Lost are we, and are only so far punished,That without hope we live on in desire.”