Punishment Quotes - Page 20

• Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Mean, People, Humanity

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• God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them.
  He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you.
  He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner.
  Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Perfection, Credit

  Max Lucado (2014). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Age, Might

  "Humiliating Children In Public: A New Parenting Trend?" by Lisa Belkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

  Lou Holtz

  Hard Work, Winning, Hands

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• Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

  Zhuangzi

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Expectations, Rewards

  Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks (2009). “Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment”, p.118, Bantam

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• I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace. With that strategy in place I can push myself for pleasure, not punishment. Maybe you can only really go when you let go.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Letting Go, Running, Gratitude

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• Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

  Vanna Bonta

  Honor, Different, Penalties

  "Justice vs. Punishment" by Vanna Bonta, September 14, 2006.

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• The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Fall, Enemy, Bullets

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.166, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.

  Hannah

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Peculiar, Want, Things Change

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• I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

  Isaac

  Hell, Should, Worst

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• If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

  Alfie Kohn

  Commitment, Shoes, Tasks

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, each of us can become clean and the burden of our rebellion will be lifted. Remember, repentance is not punishment. It is the hope-filled path to a more glorious future.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Path, Remember

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• When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely the Law of Cause and Effect. With each thought we think, we either align with universal love, or we disconnect ourselves from it. Whichever is our choice determines whether we then feel connected to, or disconnected, from our own true Selves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 23, 2013

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• Sin contains its own judgement and punishment.

  Dalai Lama

  Judgement, Sin

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• There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Kindness, Mean, Judgement

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• Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Special, Bears

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2652, Best Books on

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• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Nature, Pharaohs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Havens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample under foot the glorious Constitution and the people's rights.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Rights

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• The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed in the Constitution should be subject to capital punishment; and then the president of the United States would not say, "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you."

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Government

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• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Wise, Healing, Ideas

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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• Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vengeance, Individual

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• In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Philosophy, Men, Two

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