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  1. A quotation from Charles Mackay

    Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

    Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…

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  2. Thursday, September 18, 2025

    Ukraine captures Kenyan serving in Russian army, who claims he was tricked into joining -- Ukraine brings back 16 children from Russian-occupied territories -- Dmitry Kozak, Putin associate opposed to Ukraine war, resigns from Kremlin post -- Pro-Ukraine partisans sabotage railway, disrupt Russian logistics 1,600 km from border ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  3. A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

    The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

    Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
    The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1963)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/76…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #badhabit #child #childhood #childrearing #fault #growingup #maturity #parenting #punishment #trait

  4. A quotation from Hugo, Victor:

    «
    It is characteristic of this form of punishment, inspired by all that is pitiless, that is to say brutalizing, that gradually, by a process of mindless erosion, it turns a man into an animal, sometimes a ferocious one.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/hugo-victor/73428/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #abuse #brutality #brutalizing #callousness #dehumanization #penology #pitilessness #prison #punishment

  5. The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society by Norval Morris & David J. Rothman, 1995

    A rich history that reveals how our ideas of crime and practices of punishment have changed over time.

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