“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”
Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 53.
“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“The weak are wicked. Goodness can only be expected from the strong.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
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Benjamin R. Barber (1939–2017) US political scientist
Source: The Reader's digest vol. 140, no. 837-842 (1992), p. 159
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Salon interview (2000)
Context: In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare's plays. It's no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.
“There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Christian Religion" The North American Review, August 1881 http://books.google.com/books?id=OPmfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+are+in+nature+neither+rewards+nor+punishments+there+are+consequences%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora&cc=nora&view=image&seq=121&idno=nora0133-2<br>Variants:<br>We must remember that in nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences. The life and death of Christ do not constitute an atonement. They are worth the example, the moral force, the heroism of benevolence, and in so far as the life of Christ produces emulation in the direction of goodness, it has been of value to mankind.<br>As published in Some Reasons Why (1895) http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/some_reasons_why.html<br>In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.<br>Letters and Essays, 3rd Series. Some Reasons Why, viii. <br class="br">Source: The Christian Religion An Enquiry <br class="br">Context: There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. The life of Christ is worth its example, its moral force, its heroism of benevolence.
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter 30 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_30 <br class="br">Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
“Punishment? Reward! Punishment? Reward!”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 71
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.”
George Mason (1725–1792) American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
August 22
Debates in the Federal Convention (1787)
Context: Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.