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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for

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

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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. – Ellen Key

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. – Ellen Key

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. – Michel Foucault

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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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