Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

The best way to control the nigger is to whip him when he does not obey.

He whipped her to make her scream and then he whipped her to make her hush.

Show me one director who does not get angry on their assistant for something that has gone wrong. But it is done out of my love. It's just fun when I tell them to face a wall and stand or kneel down in a corner. It's not like I want to punish them harshly. It's not to humiliate; it is to teach.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Two things rule the world -- reward and punishment.

Americans should be treated as a naughty spaniel. If it snaps at you, hit it across the face.

If a king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those deserving to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker like fish on a spit.

It's not my nature to dominate and bully.

What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society.

I think the NFL needs a more stringent policy when it comes to domestic violence. Make the punishment work.

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.