I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or… — Yasmin Mogahed 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
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,… — Sascha Rothchild 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
It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict… — Mel Robbins Copy Share Image
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation,… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
