(noun) The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."
"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin."
"You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger."
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
"Change doesn't come through punishment or shame but it comes through acceptance & belief."
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own."
"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
"No good deed goes unpunished."
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."