Punishments Quotes
99 quotes by 82 authors
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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
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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
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
— Zhuangzi
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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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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
— Alfie Kohn
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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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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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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
— Seneca the Younger
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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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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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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
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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
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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