In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. – Michel Foucault Category: Punishment
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 Category: Punishment
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun Category: Age
I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly. – Brittany Murphy Category: Peace
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. – Billy Graham Category: power
