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"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." »Mark Twain
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"Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment." »Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
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"Virtue is its own punishment." »Aneurin Bevan
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"I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward." »Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
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"Let the punishment match the offense." »Cicero
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"No man deserves punishment for his thoughts." »Anonymous
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it." »Hannah More, 1775
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"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others." »Jules Renard
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"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." »Jules Renard
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"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure." »George Sand
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"To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous." »Author Unknown
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"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment." »Cicero
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one." »Hannah Moore
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"Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries." »Wayne's World
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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." »Albert Einstein
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"punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal." »Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance." »Elaine Richards
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"Life is not a gift for being good, anymore than, death is punishment for being evil." »Sherri-Lynn White
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"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world." »Oscar Wilde
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing." »Unknown
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"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided." »John Locke
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"Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy punishment; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash." »Menander
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"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men." »Plato, The Republic
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