You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction—no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy’s disgust.
Jonathan FranzenTags: punishment parenting chidbirth
Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public knowledge. It [...] can have a lasting demoralising effect on the character and personality of the offender. The loss of liberty, tedium, regimentation [...] which prison life entails, have a greater potentiality than a whipping for destroying the offender's self-esteem and the integrity of his character and for changing, for the worse, his way of life.
P.W. ThirionTags: liberty family self-esteem punishment law human-rights employment south-africa imprisonment south-african-law
They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.
Arundhati RoyTags: justice punishment crime irony
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.
Frank HerbertTags: punishment
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
B. F. SkinnerTags: science psychology punishment avoidance learn behavioral
It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself. What are you doing to nurture yourself? What are you doing to protect yourself? Find a healthy way to express your pain.
Christina EnevoldsenTags: pain punishment disappointment rejection self-care nurturing punishing
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: love self-esteem people punishment caring quotable low-self-esteem
We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.
Lauren OliverTags: choice punishment
The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: religion atheism punishment survival torture
I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...
Anne RiceTags: beauty punishment anne bad sleeping girl bdsm rice
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