Quotes About Corporal Punishment

#1. We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

John Shelton Reed

#2. I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

#3. I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

Ryan Reynolds

#4. 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.

Ellen Key

#5. Gilda: How severe is the corporal punishment here?
Mrs. McCracken: Honey, nobody's going to spank you here. Don't worry.

Jennifer Allison

#6. If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

Jeph Jacques

#7. Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. There's no corporal punishment here, or any other form of punishment for that matter, and the children are encouraged to speak up for themselves. Unfortunately, they're not always particularly choosey about the things they say, and it can be rather alarming and embarrassing.

E.R. Braithwaite

#9. WILL ALIGNMENT
Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#10. In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. The rules were just different back then, especially in regard to corporal punishment. Not only could you hit your own children, but you could also hit other people's.

David Sedaris

#13. I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.

Sonia Sotomayor

#14. Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

Steven Bochco

#15. Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

Paul Gauguin

#16. I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.

Rajon Rondo

#17. Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#18. What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

Douglas Adams

#19. In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

Michel Templet

#20. Now, the water is off more than it's on.

Candace George Thompson

#21. When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works.
And the hundredth boy?
We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.

Mary Doria Russell

#22. When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

Desmond Tutu

#23. How long y' think it'll take t'git that wild streak out im?"
"Well, Brother Tiggins, that'll depend on how long he can weather the leather.

Mars Hill

#24. I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth
the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.

Martin Luther