Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Don't punish the one in front of you, for the mistakes made by the one behind you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. — August Strindberg 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
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780s was… — James Goss Copy Share Image
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 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
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal… — John Van de Kamp Copy Share Image
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog,… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them,… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
“All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“You gently lift my chin with one finger and stare deep into my eyes. Automatically I drop my gaze to avoid eye… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Young man,” he went on, raising his head again, “in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all… — George Gillespie Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the… — Brent L. Top Copy Share Image
“So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad… — Rebecca Eanes Copy Share Image