Love cannot be turned on as a reward. It cannot be turned off as a punishment. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him. — Don Marquis 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
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.” — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount… — William Landay Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Whether Iranians are drinking wine in the evening or painting something "offensive," they choose not to dwell on the fact that they… — Azadeh Moaveni Copy Share Image
The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing… — James Frey Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya 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
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
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
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
Sometimes silence can be a very powerful tool for making others feel for their mistakes. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in. — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch 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
