Punishment Quotes

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Find, Before, Rest

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

Good, Hope, Fear

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Power, Fear

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Justice, Law

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw

Liar, Cannot, Else

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Men, Fear, Evil

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.
Albert Camus

Rock, Thought, Reason

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

Wrong, Poverty, Crime

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato

Men, Government, Wise

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Children, Reason

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Book, Write

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

Silence, Soul, Secrets

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire

Fear, Crime, Follows

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Greatest, Conscience, Sin

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness, Suffering, Result

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Education, Doubt, Whether

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine

Justice, Unjust

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine

Makes, Cause, Martyr

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.
Margaret Mead

Fear, Question, Whether

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill Maher

Great, Again, Works

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Matthew Henry

Sometimes, Sins, Trial

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Men, Mind, Moral

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard

Success, Failure, Others

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

God, Long, Enough

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson

Talent, Celebrity, Merit

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.
John Calvin

God, Justice, Human

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin

Last, Hands, Crime

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke

Teachers, Schools, Corporal

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

Peace, Writer, Greater

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