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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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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. – Italian Proverb

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Well, theres no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. – Lady Gregory

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