The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do?… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward,… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Do you think that the punishment for our sins was to die on the cross? If that was the case the two… — Frederick K. C. Price Copy Share Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us… More over, when we have repented, He instantly… — Martin Luther 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
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to… — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Copy Share Image
Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the… — Joe Whitney 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
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
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
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better," he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
You tell me to go fuck myself but is that REALLY some kind of punishment? Cuz however you look at it, even… — Kylee 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
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment — Betty White Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something. — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is… — Tulku Thondup Copy Share Image
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image