Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — Alfie Kohn 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
I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and… — Ely Culbertson Copy Share Image
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese,… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into… — Peter Drucker 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
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature — John Locke Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
