Physical Punishment Quotes

Beat the dog and the panther will learn a lesson.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and then they'd whack me on the side of the head or whatever. And "What's wrong with you?" And "I'm gonna lock you up," and "I'm gonna throw you out the window," and "I'm gonna kill you." You know, all these things that you say in the heat of a normal chaotic household.

Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. Two or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

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.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

The smack of the whip is all day long in the ears of those who are on the plantation, or in the vicinity; and it is used with such dexterity and severity as not only to lacerate the skin, but to tear out small portions of the flesh at almost every stroke. This is THE GENERAL TREATMENT of the Slaves. But many individuals suffer still more severely. Many are knocked down; some have their eyes beaten out; some have an arm or a leg broken, OR CHOPPED OFF; and many, for a very small or for no crime at all, have been BEATEN TO DEATH.

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

If any person has sung or composed against another person a SONG (carmen) such as was causing slander or insult.... he shall be clubbed to death.

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

The thing that should be used very freely is the lash, for it is bodily pain the native fears. He fears nothing else.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.