Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — Alfie Kohn 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
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment. — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“This is your punishment, Lara," he whispered. "To burn as I do." -Hunter” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on… — Bill McCollum 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
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I consider myself pretty liberal, I'm not against punishment. There's nothing wrong with punishing someone who has done something wrong. Or… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgemental’ is ill thought of… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm taking punishment - I think I'm out there delivering the blows. — Deebo Samuel Copy Share Image
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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