Bitter Quote by Thomas Burnet

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

— Richard G. Scott

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

— Khem Veasna

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his…

— Chico Xavier

“Why do you persist in this belief that punishment must be meted out from either God or Satan when the most relentless, merciless punisher…

— John F.D. Taff

there is no glory in punishing

— Michel Foucault

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Isaac Parker

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate…

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

— Peter Winter