Punish Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Punish Quotes from famous persons: John Catsimatidis, Daniel H. Pink, Ken Cuccinelli, Montesquieu, Tito Ortiz. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Punish Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

New York is for everybody; it’s for the poor, it’s for the middle-class, it’s for the wealthy. We can’t punish any one group and chase them away.

John Catsimatidis

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

Daniel H. Pink

What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.

Ken Cuccinelli

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Montesquieu

I punish the guy until the referee pulls me off or until he says ‘no more,’ and he taps. I don’t want to leave any doubt in his mind that he had a chance.

Tito Ortiz

At the October 1933 proceedings of the League of Nations in Madrid, Lemkin mounted a valiant effort to persuade the gathered ambassadors to define and agree to punish the crime of what we now call genocide. He failed.

Terry Glavin

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

Bret Stephens

Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.

Lawrence Kudlow

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Steve Prefontaine

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Julius Caesar

To me, the joy you’re going to get in a ‘Punisher’ story is watching him punish incredibly wicked people. Now, if you can add to that an emotional content, wonderful.

Greg Rucka

Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You can’t punish business into doing the things you want.

Mitt Romney

Austin Theory‘s young, super-talented and thinks he’s the cat‘s meow. But I’m just going to punish him. It’s going to be pretty funny to see his eyes after the first few minutes when he realizes that there’s nowhere to run.

Roderick Strong

The reason for the blockade on Gaza was not to punish the Palestinians but to continue to delegitimize Hamas.

Tzipi Livni

Trump has not only ordered a disturbing military buildup in the Persian Gulf, he’s determined to punish any country that has continued to do business with Iran since he withdrew from the nuclear treaty the United States instigated and signed in 2015.

Neil Macdonald

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

Pope Benedict XVI

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Jupiter Hammon

I don’t punish myself. Life‘s too short.

Keeley Hawes

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

There is no shaming in my house, we don’t parent like that. We don’t shame or punish, they’re communicated with with as much compassion and lack of frustration as we can muster.

Asher Keddie

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies… we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

Susan Griffin

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.

John Sutter

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

William Godwin

At the national level, I don’t know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

Barry Eisler

What I’ve become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you’d rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself – if I’m not going be able to write, I’m not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

Ron Rash

Everything is connected, so you can’t just live in a Trumpian world and be an isolationist when you’re managing government by congressional district or by city. The mentality that you can cut off one area to punish a policy just doesn’t work in the real world… it’s cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Mike Quigley

What happens in the Premier League is that when they arrive in the area, they punish you.

Pep Guardiola

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Karl A. Menninger

That’s the only way you can stop a guy like Cam Newton. Hit him. He’s unstoppable, so whenever he does try to run like a running back, you got to punish him.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.

Simon Mainwaring

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

There were players who could leave the result at Anfield, but me? No chance. I got involved in the running of two restaurants in Liverpool to take my mind off football but, before the opening night of each one, I’d played badly. It meant I couldn’t enjoy the party. It felt like I had to punish myself.

Jamie Carragher

Prisons don’t rehabilitate, they don’t punish, they don’t protect, so what the hell do they do?

Jerry Brown

I don’t like the way the E.U. leaders are trying to punish us or the language of divorce. It’s a business partnership, not a marriage. If something is not working well, you should be free to leave it.

Kemi Badenoch

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The person who has been convicted has served their time. Why would we continue to punish and exclude them from housing and jobs? Those are the primary areas that allow people to get their lives back on track.

Susan Burton

Show me one director who does not get angry on their assistant for something that has gone wrong. But it is done out of my love. It’s just fun when I tell them to face a wall and stand or kneel down in a corner. It’s not like I want to punish them harshly. It’s not to humiliate; it is to teach.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

Jed S. Rakoff

I don’t think you should punish a guy for losing when they were hurt.

Forrest Griffin

Acting‘s all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn’t attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

John C. Reilly

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

T. D. Jakes

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Robert Duncan

The question is, does the punishment fit the crime? So we’re not saying that we shouldn’t punish people. We’re not talking about a society that tolerates lawlessness. We should be very tough on people who are perpetuating violent crimes, for example. But we should make sure that it’s tailored and not arbitrary.

Valerie Jarrett

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

David Harsanyi

You must see the persons who are in charge – persons you can punish or vote for.

Joschka Fischer

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it – not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they’re outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.

Cass Sunstein

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would – quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints – challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.

Nick Harkaway

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

Henry Giroux

You cannot change who you are, so don’t punish yourself for your shortcomings. Know who you are, give it your best, and celebrate it.

Stephanie Ruhle

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it’s now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself – instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I’ve not only lost weight, I’ve lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.

Karen Salmansohn

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that’s a huge, huge win.

Blake Farenthold

My fundamental concern about the role of faith groups in providing social provision is democratic: how do we hold them to account? To whom are they responsible? How do we, the public, the recipients of welfare, punish them if they make mistakes or become corrupt?

Mehdi Hasan

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

Alexis Stewart

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

Pope Benedict XVI

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

Dennis Hastert

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

Hosni Mubarak

We found evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn’t evolutionarily sustainable.

Chris Adami

We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.

Rashida Tlaib

A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your parents‘ best hope was that the fairy would show up at someone else’s feast and punish their child. Parents had to protect themselves, too, and protect you from knowing how much danger you all were in.

Margo Jefferson

Capping our SALT deduction was a deliberate attempt to punish states that value quality public services.

Tom Malinowski

If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks’ capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong.

Nigel Lawson

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.

Rupert Grint

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Montesquieu

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don’t deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.

Kat Timpf

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Despite all the evidence that Hispanics are not single-issue voters, Republican candidates are told that if they say harsh things about sanctuary cities, American jobs lost to illegal labor, or scandalous border security, Latino voters will punish them by voting Democrat.

Tom Tancredo

The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as ‘fair use,’ which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.

Marvin Ammori

Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

Caroline Fraser

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.

Stephen Kinzer

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London – those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport – is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

David Blunkett

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Anselm of Canterbury

The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We’ve also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.

Samantha Power

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