P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.”
“Punishing achievement isn't gonna help anybody. Trying to equalize people by lowering the people at the top, that's not good. All that is is punitive. Why don't you find a way to elevate people at the bottom?”
“Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.”
“Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.”
“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.”
“Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.”
“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.”
Source: Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men
“Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.”
“Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.”
Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
“Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.”
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.”
“Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.”
Source: We cannot live without our lives
“Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.”
“Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.”
“Punishment follows close on crime.”
“punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification”
Source: Mary Marston
“Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.”
Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“Punishment [is] applied like a rabbit's foot, with as little regard to its efficacy.”
Source: The Man-Made World
“Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.”
“Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.”
“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”
“Punishment is lame, but it comes.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple
“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”
“Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.”
Source: To seek a newer world
“Punishment is not something inflicted by the good upon the bad, but rather by the powerful upon the powerless.”
“Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”
Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary
“Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”
“Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.”
Source: Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding
“Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.”
“Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.”
“Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.”
“Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.”
“Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.”
“Punishments are not the end of any problem, there must be a reason to make sure another same mistake would never happen again. Punishment itself is a path for new crimes.”
“Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.”
“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.”
Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“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.”
“Punishments were severe, their harshness underscored by the fact that they were written in blood. At the very least, petty thieves were beaten with whips. Those convicted of stealing property...routinely lost an army or a leg. the most serious offenders were tied to a post, where, as it was stipulated, 'his body shall be taken as a target,' with arrows.”
Source: Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen
“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.”
“Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.”
“Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.”
“Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.”
“Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!”
“Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.”
“Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic. So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults.”
“Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.”
“Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.”
“Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.”
“Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.”