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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. -- Gustave Flaubert
[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing. -- Ali al-Sistani
Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit. -- Allen Tate
Clever tyrants are never punished. -- Voltaire
I'll probably be punished for hard living. -- Tupac Shakur
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. -- James Buchan
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. -- Jeremy Bentham
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. -- Buddha
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. -- Charles Evans Hughes
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it. -- Dennis Rodman
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -- Voltaire
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. -- Thomas Jefferson
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. -- B. F. Skinner
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. -- Richard Stallman
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. -- Saint Ambrose
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
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs. -- Peter Diamandis
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. -- Barack Obama
We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. -- David Axelrod
It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent. -- Glenn Greenwald
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. -- Charles Taze Russell
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment. -- Ha-Joon Chang
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it. -- Brian Jacques
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. -- David Baldacci
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself. -- Maj Sjowall
I was punished for communicating, -- Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Bill Clinton was punished for his behavior. -- Star Jones
Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries. -- Daniel Handler
Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries. -- Daniel Handler
While crime is punished it yet increases. -- Seneca the Younger
One is punished best for one's virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished. -- George Orwell
We are punished by our sins, not for them. -- Elbert Hubbard
Let me say the good are often punished unfairly. -- Ann Rinaldi
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You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me. -- Jean M. Auel
We are not punished for our sins, but by them. -- Elbert Hubbard
I get paid for what most kids get punished for. -- Jerry Lewis
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. -- Kin Hubbard
Those who are late will be punished by life itself. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in. -- Mohammed Hanif
Being punished doesn't mean you should miss out on being loved. -- Shaun Hutchinson
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A core value is something you're willing to get punished for. -- Patrick Lencioni
We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them. -- Jennifer Donnelly
One is punished by the very things by which he sins. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment. -- Gautama Buddha
Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy. -- Mark Haddon
Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished. -- Henry Giroux
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. -- Voltaire
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. -- Anita Brookner
Push me and I will. I'll get punished, but you'll still be dead. -- Nalini Singh
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] -- Horace
A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty. -- Thomas Bernhard
People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson -- Doug Casey
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful. -- Max Lucado
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. -- James Anthony Froude
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them. -- Hugh Leonard
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. -- V. S. Naipaul
Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason. -- Francis Chan
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] -- Tacitus
When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie. -- Shannon L. Alder
Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished. -- Sammy Cahn
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for. -- Cesare Beccaria
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. -- Gautama Buddha
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. -- Edward Coke
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs. -- Benjamin Haydon
We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another. -- Lauren Oliver
The bad guys dont always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure. -- Sam Waterston
It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border. -- Viviane Reding
I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred. -- CeCe McDonald
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] -- Juvenal
Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature. -- Garry Kasparov
Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them. -- Boyd K. Packer
If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it! -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already. -- Tupac Shakur
Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. -- Walter Lang
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. -- George Mason
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. -- Arthur Helps
Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire. -- Dante Alighieri
He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time. -- David Haye
You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg. -- Melissa de la Cruz
Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself. -- A. J. Hartley
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. -- Kevin Mitnick
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance. -- Hugo Black
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. -- Philip Sidney
If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent. -- Albert Camus
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. -- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ. -- Billy Graham
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime -- Michel Foucault
It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished -- John Adams
Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. -- Terry Goodkind
I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished. -- Oscar Wilde
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. -- Anais Nin
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. -- William Ernest Hocking
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. -- Plato
If the majority cannot be punished then they can only be transformed; and the transformation requires change of heart. -- Meenakshi Sundaram V.R
The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority. -- Tessa Jowell
Donald Trump and I would never support legislation that punished women who made the heart-breaking choice to end a pregnancy. -- Mike Pence
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. -- Cesare Pavese
There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit. -- Robert Breault
In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished. -- Max Anders
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled. -- Margaret Cho
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong. -- Ernest Van den Haag
The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like. -- Jim Norton
I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished. -- F. Lee Bailey
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways -- Heraclitus

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