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We expect rewards for goodness, and punishments for the bad things which we do. Often, they are not immediately
— Leo Tolstoy
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Sure, Mom. There are worse punishments than tailing Patrick all summer. Don't contractors usually work without shirts?
— Sarah Ockler
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
— Thomas Paine
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
— Alfie Kohn
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
— Ely Culbertson
Cutting heads, burning alive and hanging are not punishments, they are only barbarism.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit.
— Maria Montessori
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.
— Catherine The Great
He could endure her punishments as long as he made progress in unraveling the knots that bound her soul.
— Pepper Winters
Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion.
— Sun Tzu
You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.
— Erika Johansen
When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.
— Paul Craig Roberts
What punishments of God are not gifts?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
— D.H. Lawrence
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
— Thomas Aquinas
The moment before he started to suspect that there were punishments for those who dared to dream so big, to fly so high.
— Melanie Benjamin
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
— Abraham Lincoln
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.
— Joseph Addison
He didn't care that he'd be punished. Punishments always came to an end eventually. [Felix]
— Karen Maitland
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
— Alfie Kohn
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
— Kamala Harris
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
— William Gilmore Simms
Punishments for mistakes in life which initially seem to be hunters, later seem to be real teachers.
— Prateek Gupta
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
— Lillian Hellman
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
His father's punishments were driven by disappointment, partly in the boy, mostly in himself.
— Bentley Little
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.
— Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Some things come with their own punishments.
— Arundhati Roy
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. — William Ernest Henley
We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
— Wendell Berry
Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I wasn't a man.
— Patricia Cornwell
From which it follows that neither praise nor blame nor honours nor punishments are fair".
— Derk Pereboom
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— Thomas Aquinas
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
— Ben Jonson
Establish a system of rewards and punishments
— Sunday Adelaja
The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.
— Sue Grafton
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
— William Ralph Inge
The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Psychotherapy is largely concerned with the debilitating or anti-social consequences of past punishments.
— Aldous Huxley
If God is love, then any regilion based on hatred, discrimination, punishments and prohibitions is from the Devil.
— Kimberly Loskov
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,
— S. S. Van Dine
