Quotes: punishment
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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.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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B. F. Skinner
American psychologist, behaviorist and author
1904-1990
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Seneca
Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright
5 BC - 65 A.D.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
Source: A Distant Mirror
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
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Madonna
American musician, singer and actress
1958-
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
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