Christoph Waltz Quotes

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

Punishment alone governs all created beings.

Reward and punishment are the twin instruments of power in the State; they must not be revealed to anyone.

Beat the dog and the panther will learn a lesson.

Let him remember that many before now have tried to chastise a wrongdoer, and failing to punish their enemy have not even saved themselves; while many who have trusted in force to gain an advantage, instead of gaining anything more, have been doomed to lose what they had. Vengeance is not necessarily successful because wrong has been done, or strength sure because it is confident; but the incalculable element in the future exercises the widest influence, and is the most treacherous, and yet in fact the most useful of all things, as it frightens us all equally, and thus makes us consider before attacking each other.

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.

After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

The object of rewards is to encourage; that of punishments, to prevent. If rewards are high, then what the ruler wants will be quickly effected; if punishments are heavy, what he does not want will be swiftly prevented.

I try not to put myself in horrible situations anymore.

We need law enforcement as the ultimate deterrent to stop irresponsible and rash young people from making mistakes that will harm others and themselves. Put bluntly, we need them to be scared of getting caught and of getting punished.

Too often, people equate discipline with cursing. When you go to Catholic school, the nuns don't curse a word, but you get discipline.

I got taught respect because if not, somebody's gonna make you respect them.

People should have fear of the law.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

The burnt child dreads the fire.