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Punish the deed, not the breed. -- Pitbull
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes. -- Tom Peters
Punish the body to perfect the soul. -- Mark Twight
Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia. -- Condoleezza Rice
Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still. -- Mason Cooley
Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me. -- Simon R. Green
Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many? -- Brom
Where are we? (Jericho) Noir's happy place. It's where he brings the beings he wants to play with. (Asmodeus) Punish. (Jericho) You say ta-mah-to. I say to-mah-to. (Asmodeus) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You make the decision: Whom did God punish? -- Louis Sachar
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. -- Maximilien Robespierre
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. -- Publilius Syrus
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful. -- Jupiter Hammon
Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes. -- T. D. Jakes
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. -- Michel Foucault
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. -- Clarence Darrow
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. -- Eartha Kitt
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. -- Roberto Duran
Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses. -- Jack Nicklaus
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. -- Karl A. Menninger
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them. -- Madonna Ciccone
Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity. -- Meir Kahane
Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme. -- Daniel H. Pink
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. -- Steve Prefontaine
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment. -- John Walters
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. -- William Godwin
The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much. -- Charles Platt
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. -- Robert Barclay
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth. -- Lysander Spooner
The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves. -- Ben Carson
The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. -- Randy Neugebauer
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. -- Simon Cowell
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge. -- Alex Berenson
Crimes generally punish themselves. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Will you punish me forever? -- Libba Bray
Don't punish small businesses with over-regulation. -- Louis Navellier
I don't punish myself. Life's too short. -- Keeley Hawes
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. -- Baron de Montesquieu
People who cannot feel punish those who do. -- May Sarton
I'll not punish you for having an imagination. -- Betty Smith
Women punish themselves for the failure to conform. -- Sandra Bartky
You shouldn't punish others for your own choices. -- Laurence J. Peter
Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves -- Robin Bielman
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. -- Peter Winter
...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain. -- Kami Garcia
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity. -- Michael Eisner
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. -- Seneca the Younger
Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else. -- Karin Slaughter
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them. -- Cesare Beccaria
God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde
God does not punish us for our sins but by them. -- Ruth Graham
The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct. -- John Wooden
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. -- Herodotus
I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet. -- Tito Ortiz
We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on, -- Orson Scott Card
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. -- Ovid
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding. -- George Herbert
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers -- Oscar Wilde
I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him. -- Rupert Grint
God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will. -- John Green
You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ... -- George Sand
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. -- Anselm of Canterbury
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men. -- Pythagoras
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury. -- Sophocles
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish. -- Frederic Bastiat
If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog. -- Joan Rivers
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. -- Benjamin Franklin
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. -- Dennis Hastert
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. -- Oliver Goldsmith
[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood. -- Natalie Portman
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. -- Billy Graham
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. -- Maximilien Robespierre
If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody. -- Hannah More
You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload. -- Temple Grandin
Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive. -- Emily Bronte
The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us. -- Jerry Bridges
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late? -- Learned Hand
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. -- Frederick the Great
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts. -- Baron de Montesquieu
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. -- Albert Einstein
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. -- Alan Paton
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them. -- Duane Swierczynski
And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? -- Khalil Gibran
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. -- Allen Tucker
God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people. -- Malcolm X
It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil. -- Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton
The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers. -- Rick Warren
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals. -- John Milton
There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? -- Jerry Brown
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely. -- Thucydides
If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already. -- Tupac Shakur
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. -- Ambrose Bierce
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. -- Kaki King
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. -- Newt Gingrich
I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. -- Bryant H. McGill
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you. -- John Darnielle
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not. -- Rush Limbaugh
A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish. -- Kirtida Gautam
You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for. -- Joschka Fischer
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love. -- Joyce Carol Oates
If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers. -- Auliq Ice
Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. -- Nancy Garden
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde

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