Punishment Quotes

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Dorothy Dix)
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. View quote
Hannah Arendt
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. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. View quote
Matthew Henry
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. View quote
Horace Mann
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. View quote
John Ruskin
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. View quote
Margaret Mead
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. (Ernest Hemingway)
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. View quote
Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. View quote
Albert Einstein
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]. View quote
Cicero
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. View quote
Jayne Mansfield
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. (Irwin Shaw)
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. View quote
Zhuangzi
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
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