Quotes About Punishing

#1. 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

#2. The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you," says God.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

Plato

#4. Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

Richard Dawkins

#5. I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.

Renee Lawless

#6. If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or castrating us, then you are a fool for thinking that way. That only makes bad matters worse.

Carl Panzram

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Punishing potty errors after they've happened is perhaps the most common training mistake; it only aggravates the problem. Going

Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz

#9. When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

Ibi Kaslik

#10. I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

Coretta Scott King

#11. You are only punishing yourself when you want to be in a relationship with a woman more than she wants to be a in a relationship with you.

David Deida

#12. there is no glory in punishing

Michel Foucault

#13. By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Tacitus

#14. Ha-shem to do His dirty work, namely, punishing sin. It can be read that Mastema, not Adonai,

J.A. Konrath

#15. If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks' capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong.

Nigel Lawson

#16. I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

Jesse Eisenberg

#17. In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

Jim Costa

#18. People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

James Inhofe

#19. Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection.

Stanley Greenspan

#20. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

Ben Mendelsohn

#21. Look at me and don't stop." He tightened his hands under my ass cheeks and started pumping into me. Hard. Deep. Punishing really but I didn't care. I wanted this from him as I stared into eyes burning blue fire at me. "Ethan!

Raine Miller

#22. Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.

Tim Jackson

#23. Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

Nick Rahall

#24. But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you
knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

Ayn Rand

#25. For our law has in it a turn of humour or touch of fancy which Nero and Herod never happened to think of; that of actually punishing homeless people for not sleeping at home.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Saint Augustine

#27. God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

Fred Phelps

#28. Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

Barbara Deming

#29. Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

Arthur Miller

#30. No," I said. "There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.

Agatha Christie

#31. If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

Fred Thompson

#32. Motivation 2.0 is similar. At its heart are two elegant and simple ideas: Rewarding an activity will get you more of it. Punishing an activity will get you less of it.

Daniel H. Pink

#33. Mirrors did not lie. They could boost an ego, but they could just as easily be cruel and punishing.

Belle Aurora

#34. When Ragnuk killed you, I looked for you everywhere. But you didn't come back. For decades I looked for you, terrified the angels were punishing me for letting you die alone. I thought that you'd never come back to me
that I'd lost you forever.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#35. Flo kept reminding me that they gave us an opportunity to teach, though each one was also punishing to the soul.

Gloria Steinem

#36. Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Frederic Bastiat

#37. You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

Eoin Colfer

#38. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

#39. It is not like that. I am not punishing myself. The cutting makes me feel better." "Hurting

Zoe Marriott

#40. Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

John Yoo

#41. You wanted a more interesting world ... Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned ... Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you.

Warren Ellis

#42. So many times you will see people wringing their hands and saying 'I want to know what my mission in life is,' all the while they are cutting people off on the highway, refusing to give time to people, punishing their mate for having hurt their feelings or lying about what they did.

Richard N. Bolles

#43. The biggest mistake in puppy training, which is also the most common one, is punishing the dog for bad behavior.

Vivaco Books

#44. Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

Margaret Fuller

#45. Punishing yourself for a mistake is making another mistake. Correction comes from caring, not from guilt.

Karlyle Tomms

#46. When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Austin Grossman

#47. A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

Anthony Trollope

#48. Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

L. Neil Smith

#49. You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

Charles Duhigg

#50. I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Anthony Hopkins

#51. He shook his head. No games, Serena. That isn't what this is about. If you want games of cat and mouse, disobedient slave to punishing master, you're better off with someone else. As much as this is a fantasy and not your reality, in the time you're with me, it will be real. In all ways.

Maya Banks

#52. Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Margo Jefferson

#53. The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.

Abraham Hicks

#54. The punishing of wits enhances their authority.

Francis Bacon

#55. What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

Khalil

#56. Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

P. J. O'Rourke

#57. I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair ...

John Geddes

#58. The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

Marquis De Sade

#59. Asset freezes and travel bans are cost-effective tools for punishing humanrights abusers. Why not use them more often?

Anonymous

#60. I'm not punishing you.'
'No?'
'No. You'd know if I was. Trust me.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#61. He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back
The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.

Guillaume Musso

#62. No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

Sarah Mlynowski

#63. Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Sherry Thomas

#64. See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

Guy Finley

#65. I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Margaret Carlson

#66. I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

Bronson Pinchot

#67. We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive.

Sarah Waters

#68. If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

Neale Donald Walsch

#69. There was a pact, unspoken but a pact all the same. You couldn't keep punishing someone for the same crime no matter how badly you wanted to. Fish or cut bait. April was on the pier, whether she was coming or going she did not yet know.

Michelle Gable

#70. When exactly did punishing the guilt became more important then helping the innocent

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#71. I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, Never mind! I'll do it myself.

Erma Bombeck

#72. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Neil A. Fiore

#73. Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Tamsin Egerton

#74. Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Barbara Deming

#75. Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?"
"Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut!

Lauren Myracle

#76. What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself.

Ann Aguirre

#77. At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

Lewis B. Smedes

#78. Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.

Suzanne Selfors

#79. It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Anonymous

#80. Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is hope. It is important for you to value who you are by the grace of God. Now, get set to improve that value!

Israelmore Ayivor

#81. Married couples resemble
a pair of scissors,
often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them

Sydney Smith

#82. I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes.

Louise Hay

#83. That's what everyone thinks
they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.

Scott Snyder

#84. In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

Renee Ahdieh

#85. Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James Russell Lowell

#86. Actually, it's not the impertinence I'm punishing him for, it's that he let other people know what he wanted.

Douglas Coupland

#87. Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Camille Paglia

#88. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Ann Coulter

#89. The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

Ellen Willis

#90. pg. 301--"Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall."
pg.349--"...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...

W. Bruce Cameron

#91. Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

Martin Heinrich

#92. I like the control it gives me, Anastasia. I want you to behave in a particular way, and if you don't, I shall punish you, and you will learn to behave the way I desire. I enjoy punishing you. I've wanted to spank you since you asked me if I was gay.

E.L. James

#93. By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#94. Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

Louise Hay

#95. The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.

Ellen G. White

#96. We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#97. International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

Bernard Berenson

#98. God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night ... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

David Sedaris

#99. ...from this day on, whenever he sought to master a woman, whether by threat or strength or even with a look, the fear would flare and overtake him -- so wild and sudden it would drop him to his knees to cower in terror, gibbering for solace from his distant, punishing god.

Laini Taylor

#100. Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Guy Finley