Flogging Quotes

• Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

  Peter Ustinov

  Problem, Culprit, Turns

  "Fictional character: The Dansker - Sailmaker". "Billy Budd", www.imdb.com. September 20, 1962.

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• I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.

  Ann Coulter

  Honor, Criminals, Might

  "The Conservative Pin-Up Girl". www.washingtonpost.com. April 19, 2005.

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• There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Learning, School

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)

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• On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Ideas, Water

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

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• Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

  Ellen Key

  Education, Hands, Development

  Ellen Key (2016). “The education of the child”, p.20, Ellen Key

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• This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

  Azar Nafisi

  Girl, Religious, Islamic

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

  Anthony Trollope

  Punishment, Faces, Habit

  'Autobiography' (1883) ch. 1

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• it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.

  Frances Trollope

  Children, Honesty, Powerful

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• Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Power, Wealth, Purchasing

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• The dance industry is flogging a dead house.

  The Irresistible Force

  House, Industry

  "Mixmag", 1997.

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• Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Drinking, Order, Making Love

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• I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.

  J. L. Austin

  Thinking, Apologizing, Forget

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• I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.

  Willie Mason

  Rugby League, League, Rugby

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• the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Details Of Life, Wife

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• Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

  Andrew Johns

  Rugby League, People, Training

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• The situation of women living in Islam-stricken
  societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage
  of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women
  and girls, beheadings, stoning to death,
  floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of
  marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most
  brutal and visible aspects of women's
  rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East

  Maryam Namazie

  Girl, Children, Islamic

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• Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

  Herman Melville

  Honor, Dishonor

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.366, Northwestern University Press

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• Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, Reading, School

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.161, Psychology Press

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• Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

  Robin Day

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

  Angela Carter

  Kissing, Blood, Degrees

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• Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Government, Hypnosis

  Letter to George Orwell. "Letters of Aldous Huxley". Book edited by Grover Smith, 1969.

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• When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Tired, Mean

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• Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Mean, Boys

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• Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Self, Bishops, Tonight

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• I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Dog, Smart, Fall

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