I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
People who cannot feel punish those who do.
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.
It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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.
We go out of our way to make people so different,. . . to punish them because of color, because of sex, because of size, and the game starts.
People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.
Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she was doing, and that which she did was for my protection and for love of my person. Her place remains at my side or against my feet when I lie abed.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
Will you punish me forever?
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.