Child Punishment Quotes

Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

If any think it severe that the child should be punished for the inequity of the father, let them understand that the sacraments appertain only to the faithful and to their seed.

At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, there is also the emergence of a punishing state, a governing through crime youth complex, and the emergence of the school-to-prison pipeline as the new face of Jim Crow.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

You don’t punish a child for what his parents did.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.