Punishment Quotes

• A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  B. F. Skinner

  Way, Psychological, Given

  "Beyond Freedom and Dignity". Book by B. F. Skinner, 1972.

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• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Criminals

  Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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• A bad deed always brings a punishment.

  Johanna Spyri

  Deeds

  Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi”, p.122, Xist Publishing

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• Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

  Alfie Kohn

  Moral Growth, Erode, Growth

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• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  Barbara Deming

  Spirit, Break, Heal

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

  Jean Piaget

  Impossible, Autonomy, Conscience

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• Every sin provokes its punishment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sin, Provoking

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Roots, Violence

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.12, PuddleDancer Press

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• Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Privilege, Judgmental

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• Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

  Clarence Darrow

  Free Will, Select, Courses

  "The Story of My Life".

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• The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

  Ovid

  Prison, Crime, Everlasting

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• Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

  Horace

  Guilt, Companion

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• Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Needs, Humans

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.19, Routledge

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• The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

  Hosea Ballou

  Children, Grief, Compassion

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• Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

  Robert Kennedy

  Thinking, Despair, Comfort

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”

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• Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.360, University of Georgia Press

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Fruit, Crime

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

  Ric Flair

  I Can

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• I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

  Allen West

  Baby, Believe, Having A Baby

  "Allen West closes CPAC promising 'new dawn in America'" By Shane D'aprile, thehill.com. February 13, 2011.

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• The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Process Of Change, Divine

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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• Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

  Saint Augustine

  Justice, Unjust, Prison

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• O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Art, Nature

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Soldier, Useless

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Art, Military

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• The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign, is the precious jewel of the state.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Precious Jewels

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