Top 214 Punishing Quotes & Sayings

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts.

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

I no longer believe that I'm going to be struck down by a punishing God.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

We need a tax code that propels businesses to success rather than punishing them for their success.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

What is the point in punishing a country?

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

The Democrats are about punishing achievement and punishing success and saying it's unjustified, it's unfair, and it may involve cheating and scandal. They stigmatize success because their voters are people who cannot achieve those things. The Democrats have made sure they don't even want to try.

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.

Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament of the abolishing of the Judicial law, so far as it did concern the punishing of sins against the Moral law, of which Heresy and seducing of souls is one, and a great one. Once God did reveal his will for punishing those sins by such and such punishments. He who will hold that the Christian Magistrate is not bound to inflict such punishments for such sins, is bound to prove that those former laws of God are abolished, and to shew some scripture for it.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself.

After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

More women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. When will we stop punishing them for it?

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

I don't really know who I am. I used to get scared at that thought, but now I've stopped punishing myself for not knowing.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.

I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social state has been decimated. And the question becomes, how is finance capital, how does the 1 percent now resort to governing? And they govern basically through a form of lawlessness and what I call the punishing state, in which we've had a punishment creep, and now it moves from the prison to almost every institution in society, from airports to schools to social services.

there is no glory in punishing

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

We sometimes become so obsessed with punishing villainous characters, that we forget the collateral damage is actually experienced by marginalized groups, and we shouldn't punish them for that.

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose.

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Pilates helps condition the body without punishing it.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.