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Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for its widespread use. We 'instinctively' attack anyone whose behavior displeases us - perhaps not in physical assault, but with criticism, disapproval, blame, or ridicule. Whether or not there is an inherited tendency to do this, the immediate effect of the practice is reinforcing enough to explain its currency. In the long run, however, punishment does not actually eliminate behavior from a repertoire, and its temporary achievement is obtained at tremendous cost in reducing the over-all efficiency and happiness of the group. (p. 190) By B.f. Skinner Severe Unquestionably Act Effect Tendency

One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as in courts of law, long afterward. The subject therefore may not connect the punishment to his or her previous deeds; animals never do, and people often fail to. If a finger fell off every time someone stole something, or if cars burst into flames when they were parked illegally, I expect stolen property and parking tickets would be nearly nonexistent. By Karen Pryor Afterward Behavior Law Long Punishment

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent. By Lou Brock Penalty Stiffer Greater Message

Funishment - not truly discipline. By Cherise Sinclair Funishment Discipline

If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward. By Swami Vivekananda Reward Punishment Give

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. By Karl Kraus Penalties Crimes Serve Deter Inclined

Procrastination is a form of punishment By Jill Badonsky Procrastination Punishment Form

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. By Marshall Rose Punishment Selfesteem Consequences Damages Goodwill

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressionsalways a minimum of five hundred timesand she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up ... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer. By Clay Aiken Kid Sentences Punishment Disliked Writing

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. By Bruno Bettelheim Punishment Authority Selfrespect Make Obey

An eye for an eye. By Belle Aurora Eye

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work. -Skulduggery By Derek Landy Punishment Answer Redemption Skulduggery Easy

Any punishment is an insult to the crime By Nathan Filer Crime Punishment Insult

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. By Chanakya Punishment People Contemptible Imposes Severe

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn! By Peter Ustinov Flogging Problem Solution Turn Warrant

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word. By Liam Gallagher Discipline Word Meaning

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute. By Samuel Johnson Silence Confute Power Punishment

I am punished. Only let me hope. By Elizabeth Gaskell Punished Hope

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. By B.f. Skinner Teachers Truancy Punitive Police Spouses

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth. By Alfie Kohn Punishments Growth Erode Relationships Moral

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences. By Robert G. Ingersoll Punishments Consequences Nature Rewards

Life punishes the undisciplined. By Sunday Adelaja Life Undisciplined Punishes

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior. By Joanna Faber Studies Future Find Kids Punished

No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares. By Lev Grossman Punished Cares Stops

I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe. By Henry Kirke White Punishments Child Duty Rods Dark

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment. By Benigno Aquino Iii Punishment Message Commit Crime

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. By B.f. Skinner Punishment Person Punished Simply Inclined

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. By Jeremy Bentham Punishment Mischief Evil

Discipline is helping a child solve a Problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solution not retribution. By L.r. Knost Problem Child Discipline Helping Solve

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted. By Marquis De Sade Guilty Punishment Correct Humanity Good

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins. By Rob Thomas Bit Part Helping Punishment World

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment. By Keanu Reeves Love Punishment Guess Living Experiencing

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. By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Crime Punishment Legalized Prevention Retaliation

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method. By Alexis Stewart Method Punish Talking Good

I already picked a punishment. Now you just pick who we're going to rain our mighty wrath down on. By John Green Punishment Picked Pick Rain Mighty

A fate is not a punishment. By Albert Camus Punishment Fate

Sometimes the true punishment for miscreants and wrongdoers is having to be the person that they are. By Jim Lyon True Punishment Miscreants Wrongdoers Person

If keeping me off your dick wasn't punishment, what was it?" ... "Foreplay." ... "We've had six years of that. Do we really need more?"Dallas grinned. By Kit Rocha Punishment Foreplay Keeping Dick Dallas

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime By Michel Foucault Crime Certainty Punished Horrifying Spectacle

Just punishment, which observes restraints, is different from revenge, which knows no limits. By Jean Bethke Elshtain Punishment Restraints Revenge Limits Observes

Punishment isn't punishment if you don't feel punished, if you don't experience the suffering that's intended. It's all about perception. It's all about the way you react to something and that reaction is the real weapon. By Patricia Cornwell Punishment Punished Intended Feel Experience

The troubling truth is that rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much. By Alfie Kohn Coin Troubling Truth Rewards Punishments

People are not punished for their deeds but by them By Richard Matheson People Punished Deeds

Some things you sentence yourself to life for. By Donna Lynn Hope Things Sentence Life

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. By Elizabeth Fry Punishment Revenge Criminal Lessen Crime

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishingthat is the final recourse of those who support punishment. By Friedrich Nietzsche Punishment Purpose Improve Punishingthat Final

Punishment looks back. It focuses on making payment for wrongs done in the past. Christ's suffering was payment, for example, for our sin. Discipline, however, looks forward. The lessons we learn from discipline help us to not make the same mistakes again: "God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness" (Heb. 12:10). By Henry Cloud Punishment Back Payment Discipline God

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge. By Mahatma Gandhi God Punishment Judge Infallible

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment. By Gautama Buddha Anger Punishment Punished

There are offences given and offences not given but taken. By Izaak Walton Offences

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough. By Joyce Carol Oates Woman Punishment Loved

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in. By Danny Silk Discipline Inside Punishment Works Work

Well, well; I'm starting to see what a bad, little thing you truly are, and I wonder if making you recreate your deviant act will not be nearly enough of a punishment. By J.p. Philips Bad Punishment Starting Thing Making

The severest justice may not always be the best policy By Abraham Lincoln Policy Severest Justice

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment. By Lance Armstrong Reactions Scenarios Line Punishment Actions

Actions have consequences. By Morton Blackwell Actions Consequences

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness. By Nikos Kazantzakis Punishment Kindness Harsher Answer Malice

Punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group. By Gloria Steinem Punished Downward Group People Pass

Actions must have consequences. By Babatunde Fashola Actions Consequences

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child. By Danny Silk Child Difference Punishment Discipline Powerful

I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment. By Ben Elliot Punishment People Bit Sucker

the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Peccadilloes Punishment Inflicted

Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last. By Arthur Conan Doyle Punishment Coming Slow Overtaken

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. By Juvenal Man Meets Infamous Punishment Crime

The punishing of wits enhances their authority. By Francis Bacon Authority Punishing Wits Enhances

I hate that it sounds like a punishment. By Stephanie Perkins Punishment Hate Sounds

You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it. By Flannery O'connor Kill Car Thing Man Tire

If you do something, expect consequences. By Larry King Expect Consequences

Actions have consequences. Kids today don't think about that. It's like, 'Hey, wouldn't this be awesome?!' Consequences? What are those? By Theodore Jerome Cohen Actions Hey Consequences Kids Awesome

Punishments for mistakes in life which initially seem to be hunters, later seem to be real teachers. By Prateek Gupta Punishments Hunters Teachers Mistakes Life

Retribution. In a way, by asking me to kill By Jodi Picoult Retribution Kill

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Punishment Real Lies Conscience Effectual

An eye for an eye my friend. By Tsugumi Ohba Eye Friend

But as to the question, 'What more convenient way of punishment can be found?' I think it much easier to find out that than to invent anything that is worse; why By Thomas More Question Found Convenient Punishment Worse

The person who tolerates 'exactly' (with understanding) hands over his 'case' to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him. By Dada Bhagwan Case Tolerates Understanding Hands Person

Let's not talk punishment. By George Steinbrenner Punishment Talk

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. By Roald Dahl Task Preferable Incur Mild Punishment

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. By Tom Tancredo Deportation Illegally Punishment Word

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong. By Robert Gardner Child Great Injustices Befall Wrong

The pleasing punishment that women bare.... By William Shakespeare Bare Pleasing Punishment Women

In order that punishment should not be an act of violence perpetrated by one or many upon a private citizen, it is essential that it should be public, speedy, necessary, the minimum possible in the given circumstances, proportionate to the crime, and determined by the law. By Cesare Beccaria Speedy Citizen Public Circumstances Proportionate

I had been caught with one of Prodigium's greatest enemies. Something told me that punishment would be a lot worse than writing a thousand words on some obscure topic. By Rachel Hawkins Prodigium Enemies Caught Greatest Topic

Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion. By Sun Tzu Excessive Sign Desperation Rewards Exhaustion

One is punished best for one's virtues. By Friedrich Nietzsche Virtues Punished

Karma is for learning, not for punishment. By Anonymous Karma Learning Punishment

What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them. By Bruno Bettelheim Children Learn Punishment Makes Ownback

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with By Dashiell Hammett Punishment

Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured. By Benedict Of Nursia Discipline Age Degree Understanding Proper

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment. By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Mistake Make Feel Guilty Forgiven

What rewards and punishments do is induce compliance, and this they do very well indeed. If your objective is to get people to obey an order, to show up on time and do what they're told, then bribing or threatening them may be sensible strategies. But if your objective is to get long-term quality in the workplace, to help students become careful thinkers and self-directed learners, or to support children in developing good values, then rewards, like punishments, are absolutely useless. In fact, as we are beginning to see, they are worse than useless - they are actually counterproductive. By Alfie Kohn Compliance Objective Induce Rewards Punishments

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in. By Mohammed Hanif Punished Innocent World Live

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct. By John Wooden Punish Correct Purpose Discipline

Tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for an original offense that no one could remember. Or for no offense at all. By Jonathan Safran Foer Acts Shitty Retribution Tiny Remember

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment. By John Spenkelink Capital Punihsment Punishment

Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity. By Robert Jackson Bennett Humans Strange Important Vanity Punishment

subsequently sentenced to five minutes on the Wall. By Amy Zhang Wall Subsequently Sentenced Minutes

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime. By Neil Gaiman Lifetime

We don't punish criminals in our enlightened age, we cure 'em; and the cure is worse than punishment. By Alfred Bester Age Punishment Cure Punish Criminals

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. By Clarence Darrow Punishment Admissible Offender Free Select

Jail time is still too cruel," Von Edeco shook his head. "You don't want to be depriving children of their parents, people from their families, even if it's just for a short period. I think flogging is the best method. It's immediately painful, which is a good deterrent. People don't like to get flogged." "No they don't," Geiseric agreed. "But," Von Edeco shrugged, "it's not that big of a deal in the end. It doesn't affect you in any long-term way. It doesn't leave scars. It doesn't injure them. It doesn't deprive them of any time with their loved ones, which is the worst thing you can do to a person." Geiseric looked off with piqued brow. "Flogging, huh? By Rick Friar Von Edeco Jail Cruel Head