Punishment Quotes

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

— Samuel Butler

Humility is not a punishment. It is a Virtue.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood

— William Shakespeare

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

— Anonymous

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

— George Herbert

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

— William Ellery Channing

No one provokes me with impunity.

— Mary, Queen of Scots

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

— Ginger Baker

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

— Patricia Gaffney

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

— Joseph de Maistre

Without a goal, discipline is nothing but self-punishment.

— Anonymous

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

— Ben Jonson

“You train dogs by rewarding them. Punishment doesn’t actually work.”

— James S.A. Corey

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

— Philip Yancey

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

— Barbara Deming

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as…

— Chanakya

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to…

— Aristotle

“Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of…

— Jennifer Birkett

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary…

— Gary Chapman

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

— Walter Dean Myers

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible...

— Tom Peters

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

— George Carlin

For every crime there is a price, due by pain or shame; underneath every monster lies a beast that isn't tame.

— Jamie Timbre

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America…

— Susan Burton

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how…

— John Steinbeck

The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the…

— Hosea Ballou

Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want…

— Anonymous

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to…

— Reza Aslan

I have the skills to box and not get into a war. I've been getting punishment I shouldn't be taking because, sometimes,…

— Amir Khan

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that…

— Oscar Wilde

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the…

— Edward Gibbon

We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment…

— Shane Claiborne

The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with,…

— Starhawk

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he…

— Ernst Junger

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and…

— Parker J. Palmer

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

— Emily Post

I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or…

— Samuel Johnson