Mask/punitive

Famous quotes containing the words mask and/or punitive:

    “I met Murder on the way—
    He had a mask like Castlereagh—”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)