Mask/punitive

Famous quotes containing the words mask and/or punitive:

    “The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.”
    —Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)

    “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)