"The object of punishment is prevention from evil;……" — Horace Mann

"The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good."

— Horace Mann

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108 Quotes by Horace Mann

Horace Mann has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate…
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss…
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something…
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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