Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
quote by Edmund Burke
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
quote by Edmund Burke
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.
quote by Edmund Burke
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Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
quote by Thom Yorke
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.
quote by Stockwell Day
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Cold Circumstances of Non-Touch
With grey Siamese cat-like eyes
That penetrate the soul,
I walked with her down wet streets
Of friendly drunken bums
And angelic homeless saints
Who knew her name and smiled.
Black lipstick and black beret,
She told me I could stay for the night
In her cemetery room
But she was certain we wouldn’t kiss.
I somehow felt romantic
In these cold circumstances of non-touch,
It made so much sense
In my life of alienation and self-resistance.
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Poor Poor Kids
Be quiet! Don't make a sound!
Speak when you're spoken to!
What awful fearful bounds
Speaking only on cue
Poor poor kids
You can't go out and play today!
It's punishment, unfitting the crime
This parental power display
For kids, like serving hard-time
Poor poor kids
Adults wield such power
They must be listened to
They can their poor kids cower
As they dim their kids world view
Power seeds have been sown
Hopefully they'll not sprout
So when kids are fully grown
Their kids will not self doubt
poem by Stanley Cooper
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
quote by Mohandas Gandhi
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
quote by Samuel Richardson
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
quote by Hannah Arendt
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche in The Antichrist
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There will be and can be no rest till we admit, what cannot be denied, that there is in man a third faculty, which I call simply the faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not only in religion, but in all things; a power independent of sense and reason, a power in a certain sense contradicted by sense and reason; but yet, I suppose, a very real power, if we see how it has held its own from the beginning of the world — how neither sense nor reason has been able to overcome it, while it alone is able to overcome both reason and sense.
quote by Max Muller
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Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
quote by Gertrude Stein
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Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.
quote by Bruno Bauer
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As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend.