Our justice system is a punitive one that's there to sort of deal with what happens after someone's already offended. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning - that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
It's not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It's the way we respond to crime and how we… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
You look forward. You don't go punitive. It's very small-minded to do that. There's campaign rhetoric, and then there's stuff that you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image