Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Running shouldn't feel like a punishment or an obligation. It should be a treat.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?

Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

My body is durable, my body is able to withstand a lot of practices, a lot of punishment.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

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