Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.

When I look in the mirror... I know that I belong to him...that I will never be the same again. I've let him punish me...

After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

When he misbehaves, I’ll clap and then point at my cat, as if transmitting the sting of the slap towards him in punishment.

you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.He said, "her punishment is being her,

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.

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!

The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.