Punishment Quotes
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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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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.
Plato
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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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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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That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
Scott Turow
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Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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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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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
George Eliot
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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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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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But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.
Tertullian
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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
