Punishment Quotes - Page 28

• SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Political, Sorcery

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.209, 谷月社

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

  Alfie Kohn

  Moving, Rewards, Parenthood

  "Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason". Book by Alfie Kohn, March 28, 2006.

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• If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Wish, Tests, Life Is

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, People, Heaven

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• God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Justice

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• Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

  John Conyers

  Way, Wealth, Stealing

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• The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Matter, Poverty, Wealth

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• Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, People, Prison

  "Putin speaks out on Ukraine, Crimea and US relations with French media". Interview with Gilles Bouleau and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, www.rt.com. June 5, 2014.

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Men, Facts

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

  James Fox

  Despair, Absence

  James Fox (1996). “Killer on Campus”

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• Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

  Steve Aylett

  Dog, Knowing, People

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• The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.

  John Gerstner

  Jesus, Reality, Ideas

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• Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

  Aristotle

  Forgiveness, Hate, Forgiving

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2947, Delphi Classics

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• This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.

  Jackson Pearce

  Beautiful, Perfect, World

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• REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Faith, Followers, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

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• I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hurt, Pain, Information

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• Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Hurt, Heart, Giving

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• The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

  Hosea Ballou

  Mind, Done, Consciousness

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• Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

  Max Lucado

  Christ, Offers

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2013

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• Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Endless, Believer

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.411, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Kindness, Character, Improvement

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• If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mistake, Guilt, Feels

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Patanjali Yoga Sutras”, p.112, Arktos

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• God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indifferent to our individual affairs--but we can't let the rabble know that; it's the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Work Out, Secret, Promise

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.146, Macmillan

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