(644 quotes found)
“In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.”
Andre Gide
“The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are not punished for our sins, but by them”
Elbert Hubbard
“Fear follows crime, and is its punishment”
Voltaire
“The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death”
Gore Vidal
“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
“Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.”
Yakov Smirnoff
“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishment”
Muhammad
“Let the punishment fit the crime”
Proverb
