Quotes with punished

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• I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

  Source: Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008

  ― Barack Obama
  American politician (1961 - )
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• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

  ― Buddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama
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• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  ― B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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• Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

  ― Matthew Prior
  British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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• In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends.

  ― B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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• Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

  ― Hitopadesa
  Indian text in Sanskrit
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• It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

  ― Jerome K. Jerome
  British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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• It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

  ― Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

  ― Jeremy Bentham
  English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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• Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

  ― Kin Hubbard
  American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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• The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

  Source: In a Free State (2012) 162

  ― V.S. Naipaul
  Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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• There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

  ― Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

  ― Sir Philip Sidney
  British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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• What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
  

  ― Boeddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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• A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

  ― B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• traditional
• responsible
• necessarily
• impossible
• resentment
• imprisoned

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