Collection Of Famous Punishment Quotes And Sayings
1. Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
- Bruno Bettelheim
2. The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
3. Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
- Marcus T. Cicero
4. Punishment is justice for unjust.
- Saint Augustine
5. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- Bible
6. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.
- Pema Chodron
7. All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
8. Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
- John Ruskin
9. Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Elbert Hubbard
10. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
11. Wickedness is its own punishment.
- Francis Quarles
12. All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
- Jeremy Bentham
