If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
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.
Oscar Wilde
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Matthew Henry
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill Maher
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
Thomas Aquinas
I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
