Quotes with punishment

  • Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
  • My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
  • A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
  • All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
  • 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.
  • And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
  • I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
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  • Oscar Wilde 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
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • B. F. Skinner 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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  • Seneca A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph De Maistre All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Benjamin Tucker And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Tucker But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Woody Allen Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Madonna Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy 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.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Dorothy Dix Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
    Dorothy Dix
    American newspaper columnist (1861 - 1951)
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  • Ellen Key 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.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. F. Skinner Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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