Punishment proverbs

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◆ The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

- Thomas More99

◆ Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

- Jane Nelsen99

◆ Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

- J.M. Barrie99

◆ Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

- Anne Rice99

◆ In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

- Charles Dickens99

◆ I am the flail of god. Had you not created great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

- Genghis Khan99

◆ Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

- Gena Showalter99

◆ I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

- John Stuart Mill99

◆ It's common to reject or punish yourself when you've been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that's the time to take special care of yourself. What are you doing to nurture yourself? What are you doing to protect yourself? Find a healthy way to express your pain.

- Christina Enevoldsen99

◆ Jarod Kintz Day—it's not just my birthday, but it should be a holiday that's mandatory to celebrate, punishable by death if you don't. It'll be a holiday that honors freedom.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

- Thomas Stephen Szasz99