The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!” — Denmark Copy Share Image
“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius Copy Share Image
The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The strongest proof that in the name of “science” we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity,… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but… — Philip French Copy Share Image
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree…I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering.… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them:… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has and society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me,… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
How come nobody ever talks about getting the long end of the stick? How can you even tell which end is which? — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
If you have made a mistake unknownly. Although, you doesn't get the punishment. But others surely suffer the punishment of your mistake. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do?… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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