Quotes about Punishment

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If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cueva — Popol Vuh
Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude. — Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Power does not pardon, power punishes. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong." — Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.""That's what my g — Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, bo — Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free. — Ava Farmehri, Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish — Thomas More, Utopia
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceiv — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of pun — John Lubbock, Peace and Happiness
He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise. — Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to a — B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
I heard the fear in the first music I ever knew, the music that pumped from boom boxes full of grand boast and bluster. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is — Criss Jami
Establish a system of rewards and punishments — Sunday Adelaja
You need to set a system of rewards and punishment for yourself and your team — Sunday Adelaja