Top Punishment Quotes
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Geoffrey Fisher
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix 
91% of people like this quote
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke
80% of people like this quote
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell
79% of people like this quote
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi
74% of people like this quote
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Geoffrey Fisher
74% of people like this quote
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill Maher
72% of people like this quote
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Ida B. Wells
63% of people like this quote
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
63% of people like this quote
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Ellen Key
60% of people like this quote
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
Jayne Mansfield
59% of people like this quote
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