Top 32 We Are Punished Quotes
#2. Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#3. Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.
Maimonides
#4. Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#5. Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
Boyd K. Packer
#6. In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#7. Maybe there is a law after all. Of nature. Like gravity. An unwritten axiom that governs our emotional dealings. What you do comes back to you with twice the force, fuck it, three times the force. We are not punished for our sins we are punished by them.
Anonymous
#8. We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..
Susan Hill
#9. People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what makes us what we are.
David R. Loy
#11. People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
David Millar
#12. For some girls, our bodies are not immortal so much as
expendable, we have punished them or wearied
from dragging them around for so long and so we go
wearing the brilliant plumage of the possibly freed
by death.
Connie Voisine
#13. Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.
Daniel Kahneman
#14. The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions about the shallowness of our own spirituality, theology and ethics. Do we not want to see wrongdoers put down and punished? One
John E. Goldingay
#15. We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.
Lauren Oliver
#16. We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.
Orson Scott Card
#17. We fight in whispers or well out of the way, because if we're caught we will both be punished. For this reason we don't tell on each other. We know from experience that the satisfactions of betrayal are scarcely worth it.
Margaret Atwood
#18. We are here to say that if you are evil enough to threaten the life of a child, if you are evil enough to interfere with their education, and if you are evil enough to place in danger the future of our communities, you ought to be punished in a very special way.
Jose Peralta
#19. The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V.S. Naipaul
#20. We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.
Elie Wiesel
#21. The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.
William K. Sessions
#22. The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
Ulysses S. Grant
#23. The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.
Mohammed Hanif
#24. Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.
Dante Alighieri
#26. I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
Oscar Wilde
#27. If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.
Mike Cloud
#28. Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them.
Jean Baudrillard
#29. I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
Robert Anton Wilson
#30. Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.
Anthony Trollope
#31. Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
Henning Mankell
#32. We are being punished, that's all." "What for?" he demanded, already on guard because there was a tone in her voice he hated. "For presuming. For thinking we could be happy. Happy because we decided we would be.
Doris Lessing
