Francois Mauriac Quotes

Those who are beaten become beaters.

My mother was the most wicked mother ever seen in life when it came to beating. Oh-la-la! Every time I would say, 'This is the end of me.' Oh, how she would beat me.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

The smack of the whip is all day long in the ears of those who are on the plantation, or in the vicinity; and it is used with such dexterity and severity as not only to lacerate the skin, but to tear out small portions of the flesh at almost every stroke. This is THE GENERAL TREATMENT of the Slaves. But many individuals suffer still more severely. Many are knocked down; some have their eyes beaten out; some have an arm or a leg broken, OR CHOPPED OFF; and many, for a very small or for no crime at all, have been BEATEN TO DEATH.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

I was an abused kid.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.