This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
Kate Millett

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Juvenal

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster

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

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

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Jose Bergamin

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna

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

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
David Gill

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
Jeffrey Archer

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Lady Gregory

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Ida B. Wells

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

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.
Horace Mann

Wickedness is its own punishment.
Francis Quarles

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand