Corrective Measure Quotes

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

You have to fix something when it first appears.

And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had really knock knees.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.