Top 100 Punish Quotes
#1. There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again.
Neale Donald Walsch
#3. Tyler did not believe in hell. He had decided, long ago, that if God wanted to punish them, there was infinite opportunity right here; hell would be superfluous.
But if there was a hell on earth, Tyler had certainly found it.
Erika Johansen
#4. The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,
Lucian Leape
#6. If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.
Amy Dickinson
#7. He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb
Ann Rinaldi
#8. The gods of hunter-gatherers are often capricious and malevolent. They sometimes punish bad behavior, but they bring suffering to the virtuous as well. As groups take up agriculture and grow larger, however, their gods become far more moralistic.
Jonathan Haidt
#9. Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.
Edward Rutherfurd
#10. I back up all my rules with discipline. So you'd be giving yourself over to me. Mine to punish. Mine to pleasure
Renee Rose
#11. In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#12. [We] administered testosterone to men; instead of sharing money, they become selfish. Interestingly, high testosterone males are also more likely to use their own money to punish others for being selfish.
Paul J. Zak
#13. Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#15. He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it.
Sarah Waters
#16. There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
Agatha Christie
#17. We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone. Let's keep taxes low and let's cut spending.
Rand Paul
#18. Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.
William Mackergo Taylor
#19. Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves
Robin Bielman
#20. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
A.W. Tozer
#21. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It
Edgar Allan Poe
#22. The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.
Marvin Ammori
#23. ...hope nourishes while loss empties a person out," he said.... "Lila, my love, my love,...lay down your weapons. Don't punish us because I told myself a different story than the one you told yourself.
Anat Talshir
#24. We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.
Albert Camus
#26. We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.
Kristina Adams
#27. Yes, guilty.' It is better to let ten who are guilty go, than to punish one who is innocent - do you hear, do you hear this majestic voice from the last century of our glorious history?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#28. We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.
Edward Jenks
#30. A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
#31. Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Seneca The Younger
#32. I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.
Nicole Krauss
#33. We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
Madonna Ciccone
#34. God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.
John Green
#35. The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach
James E. Grunig
#36. My death could, in fact, save him.
If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. And he has betrayed me.
Suzanne Collins
#37. It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus
#38. What did he see, I wonder? What avenue opened before him? A sudden way through, an escape from all the torment? Or was it just the venal act of a selfish child, wanting to somehow punish the woman standing before him ... just passing the guilt along, as cowards will do. Well,
Steven Erikson
#40. There is nothing that exists outside or inside to punish us or take a note of every action of ours, but it's our own understanding towards life, that allows us to experience, different pain and pleasures of life.
Roshan Sharma
#41. If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
Robert Duncan
#42. Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
James Cook
#43. The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. We appear to be hardwired to punish those who have slighted us, even if - and this is the counterintuitive bit - even if our acts of vengeance hurt us more than those who have trespassed against us.
Peter Watts
#45. An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
Thomas Paine
#46. I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.
Ilona Andrews
#48. Were only trying to help, but you need to punish them. In a strange way, it will make them feel better. That's the way of society, you make a mistake, make restitution, learn from it, and move on. If there's no restitution, there's no learning. No consequences equals spoiled brats.
Katie Graykowski
#50. We have an opportunity to correct ourselves when God does not punish us immediately.
Sunday Adelaja
#51. We must pardon everyone because if not, it will be like we will have to punish all the population. We must pardon everyone because all ethnic groups did bad acts. (Thirty-eight-year-old female, Nyanza-Lac)
Peter Uvin
#52. In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#53. And that is a crime I would gladly commit every day for the rest of my days," he said "Punish me how you will. I love her.
Jillian Peery
#54. In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.
Elizabeth Cunningham
#55. What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law.
Ludwig Von Mises
#56. Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
Thomas Aquinas
#57. Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.
Antonio Banderas
#58. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.
Max Lucado
#59. My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.
Alyson Noel
#60. The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.
Ilana Mercer
#61. Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
#62. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?
Frank Harris
#63. Think of God not as a word, or a stranger, or as someone on high, waiting to judge and punish you. Think of Him as you would want to be thought of if you were God.
Daya Mata
#64. Don't punish yourself over yesterday's mistakes and failures, just try to accept them and also learn from them; try to move on to the bright future.
Euginia Herlihy
#65. Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart.
Melody Beattie
#66. Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires ... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.
Hal Rothman
#67. No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#68. The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other
I with words, Hugh with silence
for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
Alice Munro
#69. Being angry is to punish oneself for others' mistakes; however, I am not the one who should be punished.
Hsu Tzu
#70. Government is to minister as an instrument in the hand of God to promote justice and to punish evil.
R.C. Sproul
#71. There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.
Benjamin Moser
#72. Surely the mindset of those who think they need to win, to dominate, to punish, to reign supreme must be terrible and far from free, and giving up this unachievable pursuit would be liberatory.
Rebecca Solnit
#73. Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
Artur Schnabel
#74. The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#75. Now there are five rules that separate Good from Evil, the gnome said, and wrote them in air with his smoking staff. 1. The Evil attack. The Good defend. 2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive. 3. The Evil hurt. The Good help. 4. The Evil take. The Good give. 5. The Evil hate. The Good love.
Soman Chainani
#76. That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you.
Orson Scott Card
#77. I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
Barbara Demick
#80. We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
Edward Humes
#81. That's my theory: immediate electrocution of all ignorant and dirty people. I'm all for the criminals - give color to life. Trouble is if you started to punish ignorance you'd have to begin in the first families, then you could take up the moving-picture people, and finally Congress and the clergy.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#82. It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.
Oliver Bowden
#83. A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
Clarence Thomas
#84. God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
Barbara Kingsolver
#85. FCC power rests on ... nonobjective law (which) delivers men's lives, fortunes, careers, ambitions into the arbitrary power of a bureaucrat who can reward or punish at whim.
Ayn Rand
#86. And please," Ilsa Hermann advised her, "don't punish yourself, like you said you would. Don't be like me, Liesel.
Markus Zusak
#87. He wanted to hurt his wife for what happened. Punish her. Hurt her badly.
Why not? his daughter was dead.
S.K. Tremayne
#88. The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
Charles Platt
#89. The man was a legendary scoundrel. An expert ruiner of young ladies. And he'd never once been punished for it. Perhaps because he was so very good at it. It seemed a shame to punish someone for what was clearly a remarkable skill.
Sarah MacLean
#90. Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.
Dennis Hastert
#91. God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
Sophocles
#92. Good thing I know we're meant to be together, or I'd wonder if you were sent to punish me.
Eve Langlais
#93. While one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor.
Cormac McCarthy
#94. I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.
Mike Farrell
#95. But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
Jupiter Hammon
#96. Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.
Jude Bijou
#97. What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.
Ron Rash
#98. In Nvengaria we would not dream of doing this. We do not punish a woman for what a man has done, and if he dishonors her and she shoots him, it is regarded as justifiable and she is praised for her bravery.
Jennifer Ashley
#99. ... In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to think only of herself experienced an egoism so immaculate.
Yukio Mishima
#100. Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
William Petty
