Quote by David R. Loy

“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.”

— Michael Lewis

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

— Lauren Oliver

I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws, and that…

— Ray Dalio

“The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go…

— Bertrand Russell

“No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.”

— Lev Grossman

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

— George Farquhar

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

— Tacitus

“We expect rewards for goodness, and punishments for the bad things which we do. Often, they are not immediately”

— Leo Tolstoy

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

— Anatole France

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

— Alfie Kohn

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

— Chanakya