Punishment Quotes

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.

To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts.

He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

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.