A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.