T. H. Key Quotes
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.
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.
I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.
Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.
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.
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.
You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
There's a sketch where we're playing two terrorists in a cave, and my terrorist is very frustrated as to why we haven't flown a plane into a building in 13 years.
Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.
