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#punishment

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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 Nelson


#discipline #motivation #parenting #punishment #motivational

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind, ↗


— Terry Pratchett


#punishment #religion #nature

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


— Mikhail Bulgakov


#influence #suggestion #terror #influence

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ↗


— George Bernard Shaw


#liar #lie #punishment #lie

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her. ↗


— George Bernard Shaw


#punishment

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. ↗


— Nancy Reagan


#death #dumb #death

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. ↗


— Caryl Chessman


#capital #capital punishment #day #defeated #exactly

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. ↗


— Gregg Easterbrook


#espn #fired #fitting #i #me

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. ↗


— Brian Eno


#believe #better #camp #either #i

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. ↗


— Ida B. Wells


#becomes #capital #capital punishment #crime #deserving






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