Crime Quote by Robert Jackson Bennett

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

— Michael Lewis

“People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what…

— David R. Loy

“What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil

“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.”

— Jo Nesbø

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“We humanists try to behave as decently, as fairly, and as honorably as we can without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Without ethics, a human race falls to inhumanity. Ethics determines your real value in this world and the hereafter.”

— Nazim Ambalath

“To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I…

— Marcus Aurelius

“There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity…

— John Steinbeck

“Sometimes people shouldn’t get what they deserve. If there isn’t more in the world than justice, it’s all for nothing.”

— Brent Weeks