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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature -- John Locke
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. -- Thomas Aquinas
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
The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity. -- John Shelby Spong
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. -- Zhuangzi
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up. -- Penn Jillette
The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself. -- Kumail Nanjiani
The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior. -- John Shelby Spong
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
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law. -- John Locke
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here. -- Thomas Huxley
I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand. -- John Shelby Spong
From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress. -- George Gilder
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles. -- Benjamin Rush
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment. -- Albert Einstein
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal ... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers. -- Peter Drucker
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed. -- Emma Goldman
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States. -- Ishmael Reed
Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As I wrote down in one of my sonnets - I seem to be always plagiarizing, imitating myself or somebody else for that matter - I think I am quite unworthy of heaven or of hell, and even of immortality. -- Jorge Luis Borges
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment? -- Sun Tzu
Service without reward is punishment. -- George Herbert
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. -- Pema Chodron
Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment. -- Drew Carey
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment. -- George Eliot
If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality. -- Penn Jillette
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. -- George Sand
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. -- Penn Jillette
Playing an instrument is its own reward.Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. -- Peter James West
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. -- Comte de Lautreamont
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. -- John Moulder Wilson
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment. -- Maimonides
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. -- Harriet Martineau
When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric. -- Imran Khan
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you. -- Laird Barron
I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward. -- Seanan McGuire
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. -- Ernest Holmes
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. -- Alfie Kohn
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward -- Gay Hendricks
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment. -- Mabel Collins
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment. -- George Washington
Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently. -- Mary Doria Russell
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it? -- Benjamin Franklin

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