Punitive Quotes

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.