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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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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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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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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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
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Robert Baden-Powell
British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement
1857-1941
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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