Punishment Quotes

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened ways to create boundries with my child.

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.

We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

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

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Evil gains work their punishment.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.