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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. -- Teju Cole
Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products. -- B. F. Skinner
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta. -- Romano Prodi
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. -- Rick Perry
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. -- John Cleese
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. -- Kenneth Blackwell
I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment. -- Suzanne Collins
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. -- Julius Streicher
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. -- Arthur C. Brooks
As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing. -- Mike Huckabee
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. -- B. F. Skinner
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners. -- Alanis Morissette
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control. -- Ross W. Greene
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. -- Kenneth Blackwell
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive? -- Judith Butler
All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth. -- Daniel J. Mitchell
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution. -- Caroline Knapp
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people. -- Fay Weldon
Remember that veganism is a compassionate lifestyle not a punitive religion. Enjoy it! And if the going gets rough, it's better to relax the rules occasionally than to give up the game entirely. -- Karen Dawn
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation. -- Winston Churchill
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country [USA] that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck. -- John Irving

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