Corporal Quotes
30 quotes by 30 authors
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Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment,…
— Ken Bates
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This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases of repeated attempts…
— Faxian
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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
— Saint Augustine
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much…
— Christina Hoff Sommers
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
— Thornton Wilder
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The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a…
— Dexter Filkins
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I was initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple weeks of filming because I got busted for possession of drugs,…
— James Remar
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
— Ambrose Bierce
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. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond…
— Vincent de Paul
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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present…
— Anton Chekhov
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He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized…
— Ardant du Picq
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One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As…
— William Shakespeare
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Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
— William E. Simon
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We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to…
— John Shelton Reed
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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…
— Ellen Key
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I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to…
— John F. Kennedy
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
— Robert Orben
Who Wrote These Corporal Quotes
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