Top 165 Punishments Quotes & Sayings

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Some things come with their own punishments.

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

It's a very funny topic, missing weight and getting title shots. I think the punishments should be more severe, but I don't know.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments need to fit their crimes.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different sizes. That some were so big they were like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Classes were incredibly boring. I took to dreaming. They took to punishing me. I was always working off punishments for not doing what I was supposed to do.

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

The intelligent ruler does not value people who are of themselves good without rewards and punishments. Why is that? The laws of the state cannot be neglected, and it is not one man who is being ruled.

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.

The object of rewards is to encourage; that of punishments, to prevent. If rewards are high, then what the ruler wants will be quickly effected; if punishments are heavy, what he does not want will be swiftly prevented.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

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.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

When you say, 'When you're wrong, you're wrong,' I would 100 percent agree. I've always handled my punishments head on.