Best Punishment Quotes
1036 Punishment quotes by 710 unique authors
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Hatred is self-punishment.
— Hosea Ballou
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Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man…
— John Brown
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
— Zhuangzi
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
— Seneca the Younger
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the…
— Sun Tzu
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The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to…
— Sun Tzu
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
— John Dewey
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can…
— Alexander the Great
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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
— Pierre Corneille
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
— Hosea Ballou
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Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and…
— Dan Barker
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Virtue is its own punishment.
— Aneurin Bevan
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O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.
— George Carlin
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in…
— Thomas Aquinas
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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
— Cesar Chavez
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Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid…
— B.F. Skinner
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred de Vigny
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
— Mother Teresa
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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
— Robert Herrick
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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
— Alfie Kohn
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
— Saint Augustine
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