Corporeal Punishment Quotes & Sayings

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it. — Anton Chekhov

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered. — Jodi Picoult

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. — Gail Carson Levine

When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it. — Rumi

I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't. — Jodi Picoult

We cannibals must help these Christians. — Herman Melville

I think the day handwriting disappears for good is the day humanity is really and truly fucked. — C.M. Stunich

Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time. — Gregory David Roberts

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. — Seneca The Younger

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. — Georg Brandes

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? — Jane Nelsen

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way. — Anna Deavere Smith