I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only – only – don’t make it more than I can bear!

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them

He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment

Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police – as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.

Basically, God was way too needy. This kind of attitude is all over the Bible: God always being mad at his creations and doling out disproportional punishment. It’s certainly not a fair fight, pitting humans against omnipotence.

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they’ll behave. You want people to believe in God so they’ll obey the law. That’s the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can’t isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men’s lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon, not punishment, is their mission.

No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other is by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

I don’t think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

The things we call rewards and punishments are simply the engines that move the machinery of a man’s behavior.