Best Punishment Sayings
1036 Punishment quotes by 710 unique authors
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If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
— John Churton Collins
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Wickedness is its own punishment.
— Francis Quarles
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Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
— Seneca the Younger
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty…
— John Philpot Curran
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
— Edward Gibbon
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
— Lillian Hellman
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
— Leo Tolstoy
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O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject…
— Neal Boortz
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
— Seneca the Younger
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had…
— Benjamin Rush
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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
— Christopher Hitchens
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If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;…
— Albert Einstein
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Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its…
— John Shelby Spong
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If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If,…
— Sun Tzu
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
— Victor Hugo
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and…
— Michael Parenti
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which…
— Charles Dickens
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I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
— Susan B. Anthony
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The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
— Horace Mann
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There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
— James Reston
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Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin…
— Princess Diana
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