Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us? — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“And with the laws, the punishments—and there were only two—a quick and murderous fight or ostracism; and ostracism was the worst.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“From which it follows that neither praise nor blame nor honours nor punishments are fair”.” — Derk Pereboom Copy Share Image
“Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“judicial system has no tradition of researching the effectiveness of its punishments.” — D.F. Swaab Copy Share Image
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“On the whole, punishments that are productive (work details above and beyond ordinary chores) are the best punishments whenever they can be… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each… — Faxian Copy Share Image
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe,… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
“But though some punishments are more inhuman than others there is no such thing as humane punishment. As long as nineteen men… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When you're going through pain so much in your heart, start sewing it back with from all thy issues that you don't… — BigHeartedPerson Copy Share Image
This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases… — Faxian Copy Share Image
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“I also don’t believe that all the bad things that happen in this life are punishments. If all we ever knew were… — Brianna J. Merrill Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“We are here dealing with ordinary punishments,— of which the Council of Trent says that they may be blotted out by means… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The apparatus of corrective penality acts in a quite different way. The point of application of the penality is not the representation,… — Michel Foucalut Copy Share Image
“After working for more than twenty-five years, I understood that I don’t do what I do because it’s required or necessary or… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism. — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
“Sure, Mom." There are worse punishments than tailing Patrick all summer. Don't contractors usually work without shirts?” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the… — Confucius Copy Share Image
