Punishments Quotes

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You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face… — David Cameron
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. — Zhuangzi
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
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much. — Alfie Kohn
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. — Lillian Hellman
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
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger
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
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
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good… — Oscar Wilde
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken… — Paul Elmer More
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at… — Pope Pius IX
This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases of repeated attempts… — Faxian
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before… — Saint Augustine
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are… — William Blackstone
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second… — John Quincy Adams
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our… — Joseph Story
We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians,… — Mark E. Petersen

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