All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
Conrad Black
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna Ciccone
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
Moshe Dayan
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
Gregg Easterbrook
I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
Ben Elliot
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Jerry Falwell