Marshall Rosenberg - Punishment Quotes

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When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

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Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

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Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

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Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

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If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?

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