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«In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?»
Author: Antonio Gramsci
(Founder, Politician)
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Before and After, clear-cut, develops, extraneous, first period, impetuously, insufferable, intervention, interventions, odious, phases, puberty, scene, second period, specific, THE stick, tyrannical
«A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter»
Author: George Grenville
(Politician)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
conciliate, conciliating, contemptible, enforce, former, latter, odious, temper
«Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality»
«Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
collective, democratic, distinctions, guilt, odious, unfashionable
«At last, however, his conversation became unbearable--a foul young man is odious, but a foul old one is surely the most sickening thing on earth. One feels that the white upon the hair, like that upon the mountain, should signify a height attained.»
«Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.»
«Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
ageism, arbitrarily, drives, elderly, livelihood, odious, overburden, overburdened, productive, racism, retirement, scars, security system, sever, severed, severing, severs, sexism, Social Security, social system, social systems, squandered, squandering, squanders, strains
«The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, barbarism, chivalry, disgusting, forerunner, forerunners, odious, republicanism, ruins, scarcely
