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Punishments Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
- In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be…
- In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state…
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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… — David Cameron
- Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Benjamin Rush
- If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be… — Sun Tzu
- As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments… — Oscar Wilde
- We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by… — Paul Elmer More