Punishment Quotes
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I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Andrew Fastow
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The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
Marianne Williamson
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If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
Evan Osnos
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Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.
Catherine the Great
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Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
Essie Davis
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Seneca the Younger
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When we feel guilt, we feel badly about something we did or neglected to do. When we feel shame, we feel badly about who we are. Put another way: guilty people fear punishment, shamed people fear abandonment. When we feel guilty we need to learn it’s okay to make mistakes. When we feel shame we need to learn it’s okay to be who we are.
Beverly Engel
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Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
Francis Chan
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Writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics.
Edward Frenkel
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But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
Richard Pryor
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I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
Thomas Hardy
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We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
William Cooke Taylor
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God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
Ginger Baker Cream
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The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
Thomas Aquinas
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
August Strindberg
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If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
Daniel Guerin
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The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
Norm MacDonald
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A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk.
Tim Ferriss
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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
Alfie Kohn
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I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
Cato the Elder
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The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.
Nehemiah Adams
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I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?
Ellen Schreiber
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Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country consequently there is no moral justice.
Edward Anderson