Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

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.

Justice that love gives is a surrender justice that law gives is a punishment.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

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.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.