Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment.… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I mean, an actor's got to be known for something. Typecasting is an unfortunate kind of reflex punishment for having done a… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals,… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“With each impact you tell me that my body belongs to you; that I am yours to use, yours to punish and… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment. — Maimonides Copy Share Image