Corporal Quotes

30 quotes by 30 authors

• 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
• 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
• By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. — Saint Augustine
• Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• 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
• I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal. — Thornton Wilder
• 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
• 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
• PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought. — Ambrose Bierce
• . . . [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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. — P.J. O'Rourke
• With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal! — Robert Orben

Who Wrote These Corporal Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 30 Corporal Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 1 Corporal Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Corporal Quote by William E. Simon
• 1 Corporal Quote by John Shelton Reed
• 1 Corporal Quote by Ellen Key
• 1 Corporal Quote by John F. Kennedy
• 1 Corporal Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Corporal Quote by Robert Orben
• 1 Corporal Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Corporal Quote by Marquis de Sade
• 1 Corporal Quote by Pope John Paul II
• 1 Corporal Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Corporal Quote by Christopher Moore
• 1 Corporal Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko
• 1 Corporal Quote by Alice Miller
• 1 Corporal Quote by Fanny Kemble
• 1 Corporal Quote by Homer Simpson
• 1 Corporal Quote by Julian The Apostate
• 1 Corporal Quote by Ken Bates
• 1 Corporal Quote by Faxian
• 1 Corporal Quote by Saint Augustine
• 1 Corporal Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg
• 1 Corporal Quote by Christina Hoff Sommers
• 1 Corporal Quote by Thornton Wilder
• 1 Corporal Quote by Dexter Filkins
• 1 Corporal Quote by James Remar