#punish

One is punished by the very things by which he sins. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#sins #things #very #which

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#confide #like #mother #punishes #rewards

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#good #indecent #mode #more #much

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#adult #both #child #consolation #culprit

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#displeasure #given #god #grieves #i

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#crimes #cruel #differences #men #punishing

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#consider #correction #delinquent #divine #duty

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. ↗

— George Mason

#nations #next #punished #rewarded #world

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#actually #america #educators #only #opinion