All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be… — James Fox Copy Share Image
... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit.… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Some courts have said moving an employee to a basement or closet usually amounts to punishment. But others have said this is… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've had a long career with a lot of fights, and I've taken a lot of punishment. — Carlos Condit Copy Share Image
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my desire to distance myself from sadistic Christians who revel in the idea of wrath and punishment, I may have crossed… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“You'll be beaten for this in the morning; but I may as well give you something on account now.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When you know what you have done wrong, punishment is not so painful because it feels deserved and serves to improve you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
