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In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development. -- Alice Miller
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. -- George Orwell
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. -- Ellen Key
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 Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners. -- John Shelton Reed
Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem. -- Jeph Jacques
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 to witness it. -- Anton Chekhov
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 at wicked rebellion, they only have their right hands cut off... Throughout the country the people do not kill any living creature . . . -- Faxian
I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it. -- Ryan Reynolds

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