Belief Quote by Bertrand Russell

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

— Alfie Kohn

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

— Elizabeth Fry

“Accepting punishment – that would be revolutionary.”

— David Burr Gerrard

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

— Sallie Tisdale

The reality is, punishing people by using a sentencing enhancement that was clearly intended to punish people who had been doing something far worse…

— Kat Timpf

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

— George Washington

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

— Alfie Kohn