Mask/punitive

Famous quotes containing the words mask and/or punitive:

    “To clothe the fiery thought
    In simple words succeeds,
    For still the craft of genius is
    To mask a king in weeds.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)