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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth. -- Alfie Kohn
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason -- Alfie Kohn
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much. -- Alfie Kohn
Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts. -- Alison Miller
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity. -- William Blackstone
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. -- William Ralph Inge
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. -- Zhuangzi
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. -- Kamala Harris
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. -- D. H. Lawrence
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. -- Ely Culbertson
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. -- Hedda Hopper
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works. -- Bruce Feiler
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. -- William Ernest Henley
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. -- Voltaire
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. -- David Knopfler
Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments. -- Barry Schwartz
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. -- Tina Brown
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations. -- Cesare Beccaria
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. -- Paul Elmer More
Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of life. Veal calves are dealt the harshest of punishments for the least essential of meats. -- Matthew Scully
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. -- Kurt Vonnegut
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. -- Kurt Huber
By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust. -- Cesare Beccaria
The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot. -- Cesare Beccaria
You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too. -- David Cameron
What punishments of God are not gifts? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Some things come with their own punishments. -- Arundhati Roy
We are living even now among punishments and ruins. -- Wendell Berry
When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place. -- Paul Craig Roberts
Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche. -- Joe Peterson
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer, -- S. S. Van Dine
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us? -- Elizabeth Bibesco
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism. -- Catherine the Great
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. -- Abraham Lincoln
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. -- Seneca the Younger
Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. -- Kamala Harris
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world. -- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. -- Thomas Aquinas
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. -- Ben Jonson
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. -- Thomas Paine
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. -- Ambrose Bierce
If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments -- Howard Zehr
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. -- William Gilmore Simms
The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. -- Lillian Hellman
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. -- Sun Tzu
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments. -- Joseph Addison
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them. -- Thomas Aquinas
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. -- Kurt Vonnegut
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. -- Oscar Wilde
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. -- Hedda Hopper
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. -- Maria Montessori
If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. -- Confucius
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments. -- Gary Chapman
The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards. -- Stefan Molyneux
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities. -- Maria Montessori
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. -- Aldous Huxley
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them. -- Helen Keller
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence. -- Brent Weeks
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. -- Tom Robbins
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations. -- Confucius
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments -- Tina Brown
You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." "Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git. -- J. K. Rowling

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