100+ Punishment Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivation, Punishment, Rewards

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

- Alfie Kohn

topic: School, Punishment, Two Sides

Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.

- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

source: "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

topic: War, Punishment, Criminals, Due Time

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

- Alice Dunbar Nelson

topic: Punishment, Wish

Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.

- Allan Pinkerton

topic: Fate, Law, Punishment, Dishonor

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

- Allen West

topic: Baby, Believe, Punishment

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Past, Grieving, Punishment, Worthy Of Love, Displeasure

Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner feelings. It needs no popular opinions as its reward in any way; nor has it any fear of punishments. Thus the less it strives for glory, the more it rises above it. For to those who seek for glory, that reward in the shape of present things is but a shadow of future ones, and is a hindrance to eternal life, as it is written in the Scriptures: 'Truly I say to you, they have received their reward'

- Ambrose

topic: Christian, Blessed, Punishment, Inner Feelings, Popular Opinion

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Mistake, Punishment, Taste, Bigamy

Every sin provokes its punishment.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Punishment, Sin, Provoking

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Punishment, Misunderstood, Possibility, Disturbance

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

- Andrew Fastow

topic: Punishment, Honor, Wish, Enron, Your Honor

Virtue is its own punishment.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Life, Punishment, Virtue

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

- Anita Shreve

topic: Good Luck, Punishment, Ideas

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

- Anjem Choudary

topic: Punishment, Messages, Insult

O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain itâ€”the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

- Ann Radcliffe

topic: Humble, Hands, Punishment

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.

- Antoinette Bosco

source: Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”

topic: Country, Practice, Punishment, Barbaric

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Math, Punishment, Coarse, Hardened, Corporal Punishment

I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.

- Archie Manning

source: "The Mannings On Fatherhood". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

topic: Children, Thinking, Punishment

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Punishment, Would Be, Today, Flat Tax, Cruel And Unusual Punishment

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

- Arthur Smith

source: "Culture" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.

topic: Strong, Years, Punishment

Some things come with their own punishments.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India

topic: Punishment, Cupboards

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

- Auberon Waugh

source: Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

topic: Punishment, People, Killing

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

- August Strindberg

topic: Punishment, Religion, Doe

Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

- Aurangzeb

topic: War, Punishment, Going Away, Caravans

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

- Aurangzeb

topic: Punishment

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

- B. F. Skinner

source: "Beyond Freedom and Dignity". Book by B. F. Skinner, 1972.

topic: Punishment, Way, Psychological

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Punishment, Doe, Tasks, Behaviorism

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Punishment, People, Threat

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

- Barbara Deming

source: Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

topic: Punishment, Spirit, Break

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Punishment, Mind, Vices

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

- Benigno Aquino III

topic: Punishment, Messages, Crime

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

- Benjamin Tucker

topic: Ignorance, Punishment, May, Capital Punishment

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Believe, Punishment, Everlasting

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Punishment, Roots, Evil, Religion And Politics, Vindictive

Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Believe, Thinking, Punishment, Qualms, Brahma

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

- Betty White

topic: Vacation, Punishment, Sound

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

- Bill McCollum

topic: Punishment, Messages, Criminals, Swiftness

When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.

- Bill Walsh

source: Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.32, Penguin

topic: Winning, Self, Punishment, Personal Beliefs, Absorbing

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

- Billy Strayhorn

topic: Punishment, Wife, Subjects

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

- Bram Fischer

topic: Regret, Fighting, Punishment

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

- Bram Fischer

topic: Punishment, Wish, Might

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

- Bret Easton Ellis

topic: Pain, Punishment, Evil, Mayhem, New Knowledge

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

- Bryan Stevenson

topic: Reality, Race, Punishment, Against Death Penalty, Capital Punishment

We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

- Bryan Stevenson

topic: Believe, Compassion, Punishment, Mistreated, Mass Incarceration

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

- Bryan Stevenson

topic: Punishment, Unjust, Administration, Racial Bias

Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

- Buck Brannaman

topic: Dirty, Punishment, Discipline, Good Behavior, Precursor

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Karma, Punishment, Risk

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

- Carly Simon

topic: Years, Punishment, Giving

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

- Catherine the Great

topic: Punishment, Body, Might

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

- Cato the Elder

topic: Punishment, Injury, Interest

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

- Cesare Beccaria

topic: Punishment, Crime, Certainty

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

- Cesare Beccaria

source: Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

topic: Law, Punishment, Doors, Acquittal

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

- Cesare Beccaria

source: Cesare Beccaria (marchese di) (1963). “On crimes and punishments”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

topic: War, Punishment, Judging

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

- Chadwick Boseman

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fire, Views, Punishment, Docile

But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.

- Charles Evans Hughes

topic: Responsibility, Law, Punishment, Common Law, Conceded

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

- Charles S. Dutton

topic: Mean, Punishment, Cartoon

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Easter, Punishment, Sorrow, Ascension, Easter Resurrection

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

- Chilon of Sparta

topic: Punishment, Gains, Painful, Disgraceful

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

- Chris Davis

topic: Punishment, Accepting

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

- Chris Matthews

topic: Responsibility, Punishment, Paying Taxes

Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

- Christopher McDougall

topic: Running, Fun, Punishment, Cheesecake

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Punishment, World, Want, Eldest, Oromis

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Believe, Punishment, Long

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Children, Order, Punishment, Culprit, Crime And Punishment

How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.

- Claude Montefiore

topic: Believe, Punishment, Justice, Justice Of God

He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

- Claudius Claudianus

topic: Passion, Punishment, Next

I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of some kind of a reward, but primarily for the sake of the good in itself. Such will stand on the right in the sanctuary.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Christian, Thinking, Punishment

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

- Conrad Black

topic: Punishment, Rehabilitation, Prison

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Punishment, Might, Comfort

The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.

- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

source: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.166, Black House Publishing Ltd

topic: Fall, Punishment, Enemy

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

- Cynthia Lewis

topic: Teaching, Punishment, Long, Recess

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Spiritual, Punishment, Dangerous, Smack

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Revenge, Opportunity, Punishment, Opportunity To Change

For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

- Dan Chaon

topic: Writing, Years, Punishment

Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?

- Dana Gioia

source: "The Catholic Writer Today". www.firstthings.com. December 2013.

topic: Punishment, Catholic, Dumb, Truth And Beauty

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

- Daniel Guerin

source: Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

topic: Punishment, Disease, Vengeance

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

- David Cameron

topic: Law, Punishment, People

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

- David Frum

topic: Punishment, People, Needs

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

- David Knopfler

topic: College, Punishment, Liable, Vengeful

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

- David Knopfler

topic: School, Punishment, Expectations

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

- David Shore

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Punishment, Words Of Wisdom, Rooms

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

- Dawna Markova

topic: Self Esteem, Punishment, People, Conspiring

I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

- Diana Gabaldon

source: Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1387, Dell

topic: Lying, Years, Punishment, Purgatory, Outlander

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

- Dorothy Dix

topic: Punishment, Keeping Secrets, Silence, Confessing

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

- Drew Carey

topic: Food, Punishment, Healthy, Healthy Living, Inspirational Weight

My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people might die as a result. Thus, I personally oppose capital punishment.

- Ed Crane

topic: Government, Views, Punishment

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

- Eduardo Galeano

topic: Punishment, Crime, Unforgivable

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

- Edvard Munch

topic: Mother, Punishment, Sick

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

- Edvard Munch

topic: Children, Afterlife, Punishment

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Punishment, Inspire, Purpose

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

- Edward Bond

topic: Punishment, Empires, Bores

If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Government, Order, Punishment

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Law, Punishment, Giving, Obliged, Rigour

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

- Edwin M. Stanton

topic: Military, Punishment, President, Concealment, Conspirators

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Punishment, Justice, Guilt

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Punishment, Suspicion, Grows, Espionage

We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Thinking, Punishment, Nuclear, Nuclear Destruction

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which is equitable and good it is for them to direct their own movements, to seek in the their conscience reasons for their actions, and to perform them simply, without either fearing punishment or looking for reward.

- Elisee Reclus

topic: Punishment, Movement, Rewards, Equitable

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

- Elizabeth Bibesco

topic: Punishment, Joy

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Self, Law, Punishment, Political Equality, Recompense

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

- Elizabeth Fry

source: Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

topic: Revenge, Punishment, Criminals

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

- Ellen Key

source: Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

topic: Pain, Punishment, Giving, Physical Pain, Corporal Punishment

I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?

- Ellen Schreiber

topic: Kissing, Punishment, Vampire, Alexander Sterling, Vampire Kisses

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

- Ely Culbertson

topic: Punishment, Cards, World

The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

- Emil Fackenheim

topic: Punishment, Two, Holocaust, Praxis

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

- Emile M. Cioran

source: "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

topic: Punishment, Age, Old Age

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

- Emile Zola

topic: Kindness, Wrath, Punishment

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

- Emily Post

topic: Lying, Punishment, Black

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

- Emma Donoghue

topic: Hands, Anchors, Punishment, Shrews, Sun Rise

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

- Enid Blyton

topic: Kindness, Punishment, Wish, Unkindness, Unkind

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Nature, Compassion, Punishment, No Compassion

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Thinking, Punishment, Challenges, Faith And Courage, Brainstorming

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

- Erin Hunter

topic: Punishment, Starclan

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

- Ernest Holmes

topic: Believe, Law, Punishment, Cause And Effect

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

- Ernest Van den Haag

topic: Punishment, Matter, Poverty

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

- Ernst Junger

topic: Punishment, Judging, Guilt

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

- Euripides

topic: Punishment, Wealth

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Unrequited Love, Memorable, Punishment, Unrequited, Burning Desire

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

- Florence King

topic: Punishment, Misanthrope, Mets, Solitary Confinement, Sociability

even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

- Frances Noyes Hart

topic: Witty, Believe, Punishment, Very Witty

It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

- Francis Chan

topic: Punishment, Clay, Arrogant, Ridiculous Things

Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult matters, such as punishment, correction and judgment. It also includes what most of us would consider positive matters, such as the fruit of the Spirit.

- Francis Frangipane

topic: Confused, Hands, Punishment, Fruits Of The Spirit

The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.

- Francois de la Noue

topic: Ignorance, Punishment, Names, Recompense

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Order, Punishment, Evil, Impunity

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

- Frederic Manning

source: Frederic Manning (2007). “The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

topic: Punishment, Missing, Half

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Punishment, People, Feelings, Estrangement

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

- Gary Becker

topic: Punishment, Economics, States, Imprisonment

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

- Gary Chapman

topic: Punishment, Isolation, Cry, Solitary Confinement, Confinement

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

- Gay Hendricks

source: Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks (2009). “Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment”, p.118, Bantam

topic: Punishment, Expectations, Rewards

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you

- Genghis Khan

source: "History of the World Conqueror" by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvain, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.

topic: Bad Ass, Punishment, Sin, Most Badass, War Cry

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

- Genghis Khan

source: "The History Of The World Conqueror". Book by Ala Ad Din Ata Malik Juvaini, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.

topic: Punishment, People, Sin

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

- Geoffrey Fisher

source: 1957 In the Sunday Times, 24 Feb.

topic: Punishment, Long, Murder, Distressing, Capital Punishment

Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

- Georg Brandes

topic: Punishment, Medicine, Guilt, Allegations

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.

- Georg Buchner

topic: Self, Punishment, Able

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

- George Eliot

topic: Punishment, Rewards, Tongue

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

- George Eliot

topic: Hands, Punishment, Pity

From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.

- George Gilder

topic: Punishment, Keys, Order, Supply And Demand, Disequilibrium

Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament of the abolishing of the Judicial law, so far as it did concern the punishing of sins against the Moral law, of which Heresy and seducing of souls is one, and a great one. Once God did reveal his will for punishing those sins by such and such punishments. He who will hold that the Christian Magistrate is not bound to inflict such punishments for such sins, is bound to prove that those former laws of God are abolished, and to shew some scripture for it.

- George Gillespie

topic: Christian, Law, Punishment, Magistrates

I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

- George Orwell

topic: Punishment, Government, People

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

- George Orwell

topic: Education, Punishment, Doubt, Classical Education, Corporal Punishment

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

- George Orwell

topic: Jobs, Punishment, People, Capital Punishment, Hangman

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

- George Orwell

topic: Dream, Revenge, Punishment

Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

- George Ryan

topic: Animal, Errors, Punishment, Capitol, Commuting

Let's not talk punishment.

- George Steinbrenner

topic: Punishment

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

- Georges Bernanos

source: Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press

topic: Punishment, Doe, Needs, Impurity

It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years.

- Gerald Kogan

topic: Florida, Years, Punishment

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Punishment, Suffering, Fierce, Non Existence

Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles.

- Grete Waitz

source: Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2015). “Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Emotional, Punishment, Getting Going, Half Marathons

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Opposites, Punishment, Parent

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?

- Hanif Kureishi

topic: Sex, Love Is, Punishment

You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.

- Hannah Whitall Smith

source: Hannah Whitall Smith (1876). “The Christian's secret of a happy life. By H.W.S.”, p.49

topic: Punishment, Live Your Life, Stripes

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

- Hans Kung

topic: Jesus, Opportunity, Punishment, Probation

I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences

- Heather Nova

topic: Thinking, Punishment, Suffering

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

- Hedda Hopper

topic: Punishment, Two, Hollywood, Mailboxes, Our Town

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

- Helen Garner

topic: Book, Years, Punishment

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Punishment, Poverty, Capital Punishment

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: God, Punishment, Giving

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

- Henry Wotton

source: Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.201

topic: Men, Punishment, Use

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Punishment, Expectations, Soul

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

- Horace

topic: Punishment, Terrible, Pursue, Scourge

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

- Horace

topic: Cutting, Punishment, Complaining

Hatred is self-punishment.

- Hosea Ballou