(644 quotes found)
“What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?”
Kahlil Gibran
“Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him”
Helen Rowland
“Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”
Emily Dickinson
“The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
Hosea Ballou
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
Elbert Hubbard
“When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.”
Horace Mann
“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.”
Ellen Key
