Mask/punitive

Famous quotes containing the words mask and/or punitive:

    ““It was the mask engaged your mind,
    And after set your heart to beat,
    Not what’s behind.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)