Best Punish Lines
366 Punish quotes by 302 unique authors
-
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
— Tom Peters
-
It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a…
— Barack Obama
-
I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.
— Rupert Grint
-
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
-
What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of…
— Menachem Begin
-
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is…
— Marquis de Sade
-
During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as…
— Mel White
-
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if…
— Robert Barclay
-
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde
-
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being…
— John Stuart Mill
-
The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.
— John Wooden
-
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde
-
You don’t need to worry any more or punish yourself about food. It is totally counterproducti ve to stress yourself out about weight loss because…
— Marc David
-
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
— Alan Paton
-
It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest,…
— Veerappa Moily
-
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention…
— Robert Greene
-
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or…
— Cal Thomas
-
You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone…
— L. Ron Hubbard
-
If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
— Hannah More
-
For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and…
— Hilton Als
-
Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.
— Jude Bijou
-
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
-
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and…
— Emma Goldman
-
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
— Sophocles
-
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than…
— Plutarch
More Ways to Read Punish Quotes
Who Wrote These Punish Quotes
302 authors contributed a total of 366 Punish Quotes, led by these top contributors: