Punishment Quotes - Page 2

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Nature

  'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

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• I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Believe, Moving

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.94, SIU Press

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• War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Punisher

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Crime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.290, Library of America

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• If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Way, Pin Up Girl, Bigs

  "On Being Blonde : Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, 2004.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
  [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Equal, Offence

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• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

  Plato

  Wise, Plato, Men

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• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Zhuangzi (1927). “Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ”

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• 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

  Fear, Fog, Religion

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• If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

  Thomas Szasz

  Order, Law, Criminals

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2002). “The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience”, p.36, Syracuse University Press

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• I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Air, Needs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.635, Modern Library

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• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Justice, Catholic

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• Every sin brings its punishment with it.

  George Herbert

  Sin

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.317

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• He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, New Life

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

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• To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Justice, Death Penalty

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• Punishment is lame, but it comes.

  George Herbert

  Lame

  George Herbert (1836). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple”, p.149

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• There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

  Hosea Ballou

  Sin, Immunity, Consequence

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• Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

  George Washington

  Men, Bravery, Rewards

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.154

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• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Prevention, Lasts

  "Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes". Book by John Ruskin, 1868.

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• Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

  Joseph Hertz

  Pity, Divine

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs". Book by Joseph Hertz, Genesis III, 21 (p. 12), 1937.

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• Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Offense

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• The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

  Cato the Elder

  Injury, Interest

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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