Intelligent people talk sense, but stupid people need to be punished.

An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.

Arrogance should be punished, so that people who don't know any better can learn a lesson. If you are wise, you will learn when you are corrected.

Even if you beat fools half to death, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them.

When they arrived at Sukkoth, he said to the men of the town, "Please give my men some loaves of bread. They are exhausted, and I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the Midianite kings."

So Gideon said, "All right! When the LORD has handed Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will beat you with thorns and briers from the desert!"

Don't be stupid like a horse or a mule, which must be controlled with a bit and bridle to make it submit."

Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in a spirit of love and gentleness?

And after you have proved your complete loyalty, we will be ready to punish any act of disloyalty.

I want to tell those of you who have sinned in the past, and all the others; I said it before during my second visit to you, but I will say it again now that I am away: the next time I come nobody will escape punishment.