Abandon Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails…

— Oscar Wilde

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having…

— Marquis de Sade

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

— Isaac Parker

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

— Leo Tolstoy

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Once a man has lost his self-respect, and has decided to abjure his better qualities and human dignity, he falls headlong, and cannot choose…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment…

— Thomas Burnet

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to…

— Anonymous

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

— Marshall Rose

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

— B. F. Skinner

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian