#punish

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#believe #condemn #creation #enough #eternal

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

#around #attack #began #campaigns #cattle

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#evil #punishment #who

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. ↗

— Ross Perot

#earth #going #honest #i #make

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. ↗

— Zhuang Zi

#form #lowest #lowest form #punishments #rewards

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 Dickens

#education #injustice #punishment #education

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#form #lowest #lowest form #punishment #rewards

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#exclusion #immigration #judgement #punishment #slavery

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? ↗

— Jerry Brown

#prisons #protect #punish

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#failure #john-steinbeck #morality #punishment #strength