Quotes of: Punish Keyword

Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that are important. … it's vanity.

City of Stairs

[His pain] wasn’t a punishment. It wasn’t a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn’t all his life was, not always.

Dance With Me

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

His Majesty's Dragon

WILL ALIGNMENT Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools Kamil Ali

The Initiates

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

Midnight Alley

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Snuff

...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.

The Princess Bride

I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.

The Paying Guests

In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

The Past and the Punishments

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Paul and Virginia

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

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

The Time Keeper

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.

Peter Boghossian

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Paul Gallico

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Roberto Duran

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

Rush Limbaugh

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

Tammy Bruce

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Theodore Bikel

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Karl A. Menninger