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The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Dennis Prager

Idea

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

Aaron Neville

Punishment

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

Kate Millett

Country

Punishment

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Jayne Mansfield

Punishment

Wrong

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.