A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Steve Prefontaine

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.
Milos Forman

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Richard Land

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
Jupiter Hammon

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Ivan Turgenev

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Charles de Secondat

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.
Howard Coble

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto Duran

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
William Petty

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
Susan Griffin

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.
Rupert Grint

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
Abu Bakar Bashir

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
Robert Duncan

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Bryant H. McGill