He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
What was important – that they punished if you’re innocent, because that puts everybody, you know, puts fear in everybody.
There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
