Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges. Votes: 3
Marshall B. RosenbergForgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive. Votes: 3
Jodi PicoultFailure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Votes: 3
Jules RenardPunishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. Votes: 3
Bill BennettShe said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts. Votes: 3
Rick RiordanIf you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. Votes: 3
Jayne MansfieldIn nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Votes: 2
Robert Green IngersollLet the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] Votes: 2
Marcus Tullius CiceroI think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. Votes: 2
Bill MaherLet's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. Votes: 2
P. J. O'RourkeWhipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Votes: 2
Harriet Beecher StoweWork is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. Votes: 1
George SandBut this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. Votes: 1
Benjamin TuckerWoman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil. Votes: 0
Saint John ChrysostomI haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment. Votes: 0
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieHatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. Votes: 0
Hosea BallouCorporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThis country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. Votes: 0
Kate MillettTo sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment." Votes: 0
Jose BergaminI believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. Votes: 0
Bill O'ReillyCapital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantThe first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values. Votes: 0
Marshall B. RosenbergThe first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThere is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self. Votes: 0
Pasquier QuesnelThere is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness. Votes: 0
Nikos KazantzakisIf they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today. Votes: 0
Yusuf al-QaradawiThere is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. Votes: 0
Lope de VegaIsn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire? Votes: 0
Thomm QuackenbushIsn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire~? Votes: 0
Thomm QuackenbushThe work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithCrimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment Votes: 0
Cesare BeccariaGuilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellThis punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuTo remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. Votes: 0
Richard AttenboroughIrish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment. Votes: 0
Edna O'BrienIf you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality. Votes: 0
Penn JilletteJustice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiGolf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0
James Barrett RestonGolf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0
James RestonGood and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature Votes: 0
John LockeThe English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Votes: 0
Edward BondOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyNo severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThe anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy. Votes: 0
Nicolás Gómez DávilaWhoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment. Votes: 0
Anjem ChoudaryWe deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God's wrath and get God's love. Votes: 0
Philip YanceyMost people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. Votes: 0
George OrwellPenalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor. Votes: 0
Vanna BontaLove & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. Votes: 0
Shoghi EffendiDeath is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThe punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertI hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell. Votes: 0
Patricia GaffneyEvery painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin. Votes: 0
Martyn Lloyd-JonesI have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God. Votes: 0
Russell JohnsonVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. Votes: 0
Ben JonsonThat led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. Votes: 0
Scott TurowRepentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future. Votes: 0
Richard G. ScottShame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. Votes: 0
Samuel RichardsonOne man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. Votes: 0
JuvenalWe don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. Votes: 0
Will RogersThe main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong Votes: 0
Auberon WaughDiscipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in. Votes: 0
Danny SilkIMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyThere must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. Votes: 0
Jerzy Kosinski...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. Votes: 0
Markus ZusakStorms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience! Votes: 0
David JeremiahNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. Votes: 0
Hannah ArendtViolence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment. Votes: 0
Marshall B. RosenbergCatholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. Votes: 0
Madonna CicconeSleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. Votes: 0
Comte de LautreamontWe are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThe guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Votes: 0
Vittorio AlfieriMany a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment. Votes: 0
Henrik IbsenThe public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it. Votes: 0
Cato the ElderBehaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Votes: 0
Penn JilletteLove is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. Votes: 0
James MadisonPlaying an instrument is its own reward.Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. Votes: 0
Peter James WestWhy is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment? Votes: 0
Francis ChanLove is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone. Votes: 0
Marguerite YourcenarI support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make. Votes: 0
Ted CruzThe object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good. Votes: 0
Horace MannThe only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulIf punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. Votes: 0
John LockeIf my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse Votes: 0
Leanda de LisleI'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn? Votes: 0
Mort SahlI want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebI think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. Votes: 0
Oliver NorthWe make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauCustoms is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country! Votes: 0
GodfreyNature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. Votes: 0
Eric HofferReligion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. Votes: 0
August StrindbergWhen the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment. Votes: 0
EuripidesMy creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiCapital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. Votes: 0
William J. BrennanThe message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment. Votes: 0
Benigno Aquino IIII am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. Votes: 0
Stanislaw Jerzy LecI prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment. Votes: 0
Cato the ElderIt takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order. Votes: 0
Cesar ChavezEvery vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it. Votes: 0
Doug StanhopeLying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. Votes: 0
John BercowAfter all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls. Votes: 0
Tip O'NeillGoing to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. Votes: 0
Hannah MoreIt is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise. Votes: 0
Sallie TisdaleI must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiAll pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. Votes: 0
Joseph de MaistreBad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. Votes: 0
JuvenalIf Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical... Votes: 0
Donna McKechnieIn a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment. Votes: 0
Olivia WildeIt is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.] Votes: 0
OvidThere is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerI am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me. Votes: 0
Genghis KhanIf you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you Votes: 0
Genghis KhanThe punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. Votes: 0
VoltaireThis is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. Votes: 0
JuvenalIt is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences. Votes: 0
Anthony LiccioneThere is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all. Votes: 0
Hosea BallouNothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. Votes: 0
Cardinal RichelieuTo burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. Votes: 0
Federico Garcia LorcaWe frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldDo not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibThere are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. Votes: 0
John Moulder WilsonThe prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did. Votes: 0
Wiley DrakeIt is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment. Votes: 0
MaimonidesAllah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good. Votes: 0
Omar SuleimanPeople are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest. Votes: 0
William PennPower is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiHappiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollTo fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaWas it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down? Votes: 0
Larry MerchantSmiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London. Votes: 0
John le CarreFor Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end. Votes: 2 Monica Crowley
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. Votes: 6 Bill Maher
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. Votes: 12 Ellen Key
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. Votes: 6 Paul Gallico
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. Votes: 3 Leon Panetta
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. Votes: 1 Edwin M. Stanton
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. Votes: 1 Max Nordau
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. Votes: 3 George Berkeley
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Votes: 3 Mahatma Gandhi
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. Votes: 2 Madonna Ciccone
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. Votes: 3 John Calvin
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. Votes: 1 Ernest Holmes
For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end. Votes: 1 Monica Crowley
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness. Votes: 1 Jeffrey Bell
Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone. Votes: 1 Matt Taibbi
For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. Votes: 1 Cesare Beccaria
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Votes: 2 Lucius Annaeus Seneca