Punishment Quotes
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Oscar Wilde -
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.
John Locke Nazareth -
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
Abraham Lincoln -
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde -
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
George Washington -
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
Oscar Wilde
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To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
Mother Teresa -
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming -
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
Kate Mulgrew -
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
Mary Doria Russell -
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Joseph de Maistre
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Gary Becker -
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Lady Gregory -
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine -
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
Oscar Wilde -
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
Samantha Power -
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
Kate Millett -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More