"It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost."

-- Alfie Kohn

#Punishment Quotes #People Quotes #Age Quotes

“It's [the word â€œsorryâ€] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.”
“I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function of the word "believe" in the realm of faith, a basic term in the grammar of every creed.”
“He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.”
“The less government, the better”
“By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.”
“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
“As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the most unjust and cruel things, as well as all seemingly pointless and undeserved sufferings, have been permitted by God as a glorious opportunity for us to react to them in such a way that our Lord and Savior is able to produce in us, little by little, his own lovely character.”

Source : "Hinds' Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey".
“I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.”

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