Definition of Punishment

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Punishment

Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.

The act of punishing.

Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

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Punishment Quotations

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

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine

Punishment Translations

punishment in Afrikaans is straf
punishment in Danish is straf
punishment in Dutch is straf, bestraffing
punishment in German is Strafe, Strafe, Bestrafung
punishment in Italian is castigo, punizione
punishment in Latin is ultio ultionis, poena, supplicium
punishment in Spanish is punicion, castigo, escarmiento
punishment in Swedish is straff, straff, bestraffning

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