"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."

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Source : Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

Ellen Key

#Pain Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Every single film I've done, it's about the character.”
“Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.”
“It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.”
“People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.”
“I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.”
“My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.”
“The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.”
“My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.”

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