Punishment Quotes - Page 9

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.

Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.