Reward And Punishment Quotes

• 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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• Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Punishment

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 1, 1948.

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• If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

  Albert Einstein

  Im Sorry, Atheist, Fear

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Punishment, Evil

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

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

  Alfie Kohn

  Moving, Punishment, Rewards

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

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• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Independent, Punishment, Anxiety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.

  Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

  Punishment, Damnation, World

  Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1989). “The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays, Including The Water Hen”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Choices, Would Be

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.787, Hackett Publishing

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• The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our actions, founded upon moral freedom and accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues-these these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how any civilized society can exist without them.

  Joseph Story

  Responsibility, Punishment, Community

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.699

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• The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

  John Adams

  Mean, Punishment, Government

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• The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Prayer, Father, Maturity

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• Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

  John Locke

  Law, Punishment, Balance

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.28

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• I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Punishment, Gutters, Looks

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

  Albert Einstein

  Religion, Agnostic, I Believe In God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.340, Princeton University Press

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• I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

  Ely Culbertson

  Punishment, Cards, World

  "Total Peace: What Makes Wars and how to Organize Peace".

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• In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

  Israel Shenker

  Bible, Fate, Men

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.

  George Gilder

  Order, Punishment, Keys

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.

  Peter Drucker

  Animal, Men, Survival

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

  Tina Brown

  Mistake, Psychics, Punishment

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• Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.

  Tom Robbins

  Views, Punishment, Rewards

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.192, Bantam

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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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