Whipping Quotes

“My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whipping post.
-Silk”
― David Eddings, Enchanters' End Game

“When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people.”
― Isabel Miller, Patience & Sarah

“How long y' think it'll take t'git that wild streak out im?"
"Well, Brother Tiggins, that'll depend on how long he can weather the leather.”
― Mars Hill, The Moaner's Bench: A Novel

“To accept our tinyness in the universe is not a weakness; on the contrary it is whipping ourselves to get rid of this tinyness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In the slave narrative of Moses Grandy, an especially brutal form of whipping is described in which the woman was required to lie on the ground with her stomach positioned in a hole, whose purpose was to safeguard the fetus (conceived as future slave labor).”
― Angela Y. Davis